Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.