A new artificial-intelligence system could help geoscientists locate underground oil and gas reservoirs by turning subtle patterns in seismic data...

Karst landscapes are often described as nature’s hidden plumbing: rain disappears into cracks, sinkholes and caverns, then reappears far underground...

Global ocean wave forecasts have received a major artificial-intelligence upgrade in a study that could reshape how ships, offshore platforms,...

Phosphorus is the nutrient that can quietly transform a lake from a clear, oxygen-rich ecosystem into a green, algae-choked danger...

A new study of Spain’s Guadalquivir River Basin is challenging one of the most influential assumptions in modern water policy:...

Base isolation is one of earthquake engineering’s most successful strategies, designed to protect buildings by separating their main structure from...

The rebuilding of cities after a major disaster can restore homes, roads, and economies—but it can also create a new...

River forecasting has entered a new phase in which artificial intelligence is being asked to do more than follow yesterday’s...

Woods Hole, Massachusetts—A new study suggests that the climate systems of the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans have been unusually...

A new study suggests that volcanic eruptions in the nineteenth century did more than cool the planet for a few...