The Livable Planet Fund (LPF) is a special partnership to incentivize middle-income countries to address critical global challenges while prioritizing national development. The Framework for Financial ...

Degraded natural wealth is not just an environmental problem, it is also an economic liability. But achieving economic growth without harming the environment is not only possible but has already been ...

The “triple planetary crisis,” which includes climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, is the most profound challenge that humanity has ever faced. Yet, if you listen to the current public ...

What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do ...

What can the galactic habitable zone (GHZ), galactic regions where complex life is hypothesized to be able to evolve, teach scientists about finding the correct stars that could have habitable planets ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of California, Berkeley now estimate that one in five stars like the sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away. A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at ...

NASA scientists announced Monday that they had found the first Earth-sized, potentially habitable planet. The planet, currently known as TOI 700 d, is about 100 light years away. It is orbiting a star ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...