Half of All Habitable Land Is Used for Agriculture

strange statistics

The World Has Lost One-Third of Its Forests

strange statistics

Food Production Causes 26% of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

strange statistics

Mosquitoes and Snakes: The World's Most Deadly Animals

strange statistics

Plastic Production Grew From 2 Million to 450 Million Tonnes

strange statistics

Marine Species Populations Shrank 56% Since 1970

conservation

Restore 300,000 km of Rivers by 2030: The Freshwater Challenge

conservation

742 New Species Discovered in the Congo Basin

conservation

Forest Corridors Reconnecting Elephants Across Borders

conservation

1 in 4 Freshwater Fish in Africa Threatened With Extinction

conservation

More Than Half of Bird Species Are in Decline

conservation

Wild Mammals Are Making a Comeback in Europe

conservation

Tracking Elephants Across 200,000 Square Miles: The KAZA Landscape

conservation

Just 10 Species Make Up Half of Wild Land Mammal Biomass

biodiversity

1 Million Species Threatened With Extinction

biodiversity

Amphibians Are the Most Threatened Animal Group

biodiversity

Large Animals Have Always Faced the Highest Extinction Risk

biodiversity

Wildlife Populations Declined 73% Since 1970

biodiversity

IUCN Red List: 48,600 Species Threatened With Extinction

biodiversity

Wild Mammal Biomass Has Fallen 85% Since Humans Arrived

biodiversity

Solar System Facts: 8 Planets, 5 Dwarf Planets

space

InSight Detected 1,319 Marsquakes

space

Mars Had Liquid Water a Billion Years Longer Than We Thought

space

40,000 Near-Earth Asteroids Discovered

space

NASA Has Confirmed 6,000 Exoplanets

space

Europa Clipper: 1.8 Billion Miles to an Ocean World

space

Europa's Ocean Is Twice the Size of Earth's Oceans

space

Less Than 30% of Dangerous Asteroids Have Been Found

space

2022 Tonga Eruption Reached 57 km Into the Atmosphere

natural disasters

Rainfall-Induced Landslide Hazards

natural disasters

Post-Fire Debris Flows: The Danger in the First Year

natural disasters

FEMA's National Risk Index: 18 Natural Hazards Mapped

natural disasters

The 20 Largest Earthquakes Since 1900

natural disasters

What Are the Effects of Earthquakes?

natural disasters

Kīlauea's Summit Eruptions: 6 Since 2020

natural disasters

July 2025: 1,434 Flash Flood Warnings in One Month

natural disasters

10 Largest Earthquakes Ever Recorded

natural disasters

How Landslides Cause Tsunamis

natural disasters

WMO Certifies 829 km Lightning Megaflash Record

weather

World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive

weather

Europe's Heatwave Crisis: France's 27 Extreme Heat Days

weather

1,200 Tornadoes Hit the U.S. Every Year

weather

Flash Floods Kill More People Than Tornadoes or Hurricanes

weather

Lightning Return Stroke: 60,000 Miles Per Second

weather

Lightning Strikes 40 Times Every Second

weather

The Ozone Layer Is Finally Recovering

climate

Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Surge to New Record in 2023

climate

Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise

climate

A Decade of Acceleration: Global Climate 2011–2020

climate

Climate Change Impacts: The Full Picture

climate

State of the Global Climate 2025

climate

Sea Level Rise Is Accelerating

climate

What's the Hottest Earth Has Ever Been?

climate

Greenhouse Gases: Methane's Outsized Role

climate

Arctic Tundra Is Now Emitting More Carbon Than It Stores

climate

What Are El Niño and La Niña?

oceans

Phytoplankton: Half of Earth's Oxygen Comes from the Ocean

oceans

Quantifying the Ocean Carbon Sink

oceans

Marine Protected Areas Cover 26% of U.S. Waters

oceans

Rare Species and Fish Nurseries on Coral Banks

oceans

Coastal Blue Carbon: Mangroves as Climate Shields

oceans

NOAA Confirms 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event

oceans

Rising Ocean Temps Threaten Coral Reefs

oceans

How Climate Change Destroys Coral Reefs

oceans

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries

oceans

How Wind Turbines Kill Bats

animals

Northern Fur Seal Life Cycle

animals

Trans-Pacific Humpback Whale Migrations

animals

Wild Tiger Population Facts

animals

Sea Turtles

animals

Humpback Whale Migration

animals

African Elephants: Giants of the Savanna

animals

Snow Leopard: Facts and Conservation

animals

Sylvatic Plague and Prairie Dogs

animals

White-Nose Syndrome Is Killing Millions of Bats

animals

The Largest Creatures to Ever Exist

animals

How Deep Is the Ocean Really?

oceans

Wild Weather Statistics That Will Blow Your Mind

weather

The Deadliest Animals on Earth Ranked by Human Deaths

animals

10 Ocean Statistics That Sound Fake But Are Real

oceans

Earth in Numbers: The Planet Explained Visually

infographics