The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the most powerful on Earth ... But because the globe is spinning underneath, each orbit covers a different slice of the world—now China, now India, now ...

Scientists say the long-term increase in temperatures, driven by the constant increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, ...

And the pictures from space show our world as a globe and yet somehow there are some people that still seem to believe the earth is flat. So as human beings we love stories because stories make ...

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year.