Duran Duran’s first single, “Planet Earth,” was on my mind this morning. At one point in the song, Simon Le Bon laments about there being no sign of life and asks if we can hear his concerns. As a ...
To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...
A lone man walks across an expanse of ice; a mottled tundra; desert badlands. The single human figure becomes a focal point ...
About ten years ago, science writer Ferris Jabr started contemplating Earth as a living planet rather than a planet with life on it. It began when he learned that the Amazon rainforest doesn't simply ...