At first glance, an olivine crystal recovered from the seafloor may look like an inert green grain—a tiny mineral fragment...

A 15,000-year-old environmental record preserved in the sediments of Yellowstone National Park’s Lower Geyser Basin is offering scientists a new...

Southwest China’s dramatic greening may be facing an invisible limit beneath the surface. A regional analysis of karst forests and...

Earth’s climate system is entering territory not seen in the past millennium, while a wave of new atmospheric research reveals...

A quiet scientific crisis is unfolding high in the world’s mountains. As glaciers retreat, they are not only shrinking as...

Tropical forests have long been portrayed as a single, vast climate machine: warm, wet and extraordinarily productive. But a new...

North Sinai’s social-housing blocks could become significantly more comfortable—and potentially less dependent on energy-intensive cooling—by turning local waste into building...

A new study is bringing artificial intelligence into the fight against one of the most persistent visual signatures of industrial...

A new study in Nature Communications reports that tropical processes have repeatedly driven major changes in monsoon strength across the...

A vast slab of oceanic crust can plunge beneath a continent, disappear into Earth’s mantle, and still shape where volcanoes...