Earth Science

A hidden biological tug-of-war beneath our feet may be weakening one of Earth’s most important natural defenses against climate change....

Water can remain liquid far below its familiar freezing point, but in Earth’s atmosphere it rarely gets the chance to...

A new study is revealing that beaches can behave like highly sensitive tidal instruments, changing shape and position in ways...

For decades, scientists have searched for the microscopic “hotspots” that make some mineral particles remarkably effective at triggering ice formation...

For decades, one of the most persistent explanations for the disappearance of Neanderthals has been that climate change broke their...

A new study of the Kermadec Trench has revealed how microbial life can persist in one of Earth’s most nutrient-starved...

A hidden chemical legacy frozen into Arctic soils could be set for a dramatic return as the planet warms. A...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, before Earth, Jupiter, or even the Sun had fully taken shape, the future solar system...

A new study is challenging one of the most familiar explanations for the long-term rhythm of the Asian summer monsoon....

A vast opening in the Arctic sea ice has long been treated as one of nature’s great contradictions: a region...