In the drought-prone backlands of northeastern Brazil, where a single reservoir may be the only buffer between a community and...

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Deep beneath the Ordos Basin of north-central China, in a slice of Triassic rock known as the Chang 73 Sub-Member,...

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For more than a century, scientists have struggled with a deceptively simple question: how bad was that flood? Earthquakes have...

Crown-of-thorns starfish are among the most destructive coral predators on Earth, and a new study has revealed that their appetite...

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The narrow band where Canada's boreal forest gives way to Arctic tundra is one of the most consequential ecological boundaries...

Microplastics have been found buried at every depth sampled in the mangrove sediments of Northern Aceh, Indonesia, according to a...

Deep beneath the high-altitude terrain of Yunnan Province in southwest China, one of the country's most important porphyry copper deposits...