The World Wide Fund for Nature has released the latest of its Living Planet reports, where it rounds up just how badly we’re messing up the Earth.

The Earth is in the midst of the sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals, with nearly 50 percent of all species disappearing, scientists say. Which plants should be a top priority to conserve?

Carbon dioxide output is rising rather than falling, despite efforts to curb it. 'It's scary,' one researcher says.

Hurray for the European Court of Human Rights. It has rejected an emergency injunction to block the Large Hadron Collider from turning on on 10 September.

Booming demand for resources as the world's population surges from 6 to 9 billion will put unsustainable demand on the remaining forests

Irrational preferences for rare products are likely to drive the few remaining caviar sturgeon in the Caspian Sea to extinction, warn biologists

An utterly incomprehensible paper has been produced by a team of physicists, designed to make everyone feel better about the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider will produce black holes that will suck the Earth into themselves.

radioweather writes "An article from the Financial Post says that recent studies of biosphere imaging from the NASA SEAWIFS satellite indicate that the Earth's biomass is booming: 'The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA satellite data.

This is not what you'd normally expect to see in a press release from a U.S. government scientist: