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...

Earthquakes along oceanic transform faults have long been treated as relatively straightforward events: two sections of seafloor slide horizontally past...

Nitrogen is the quiet force behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements—and one of its most dangerous environmental problems. The element...