Earth Science

A new study is putting the deep ocean’s most elusive tectonic features under a sharper lens, revealing that the Gorda...

A new study in Communications Earth & Environment reports that late Cambrian life suffered a dramatic blow during the Marjuman...

Plastic agricultural films (PAFs) are a quiet workhorse of modern farming, but new research warns they are also quietly reshaping...

Feedstock-derived biochar is often marketed as a predictable tool for improving soils, removing contaminants, recycling nutrients, and storing carbon. Yet...

Tropical cyclones are expected to drench more intensely as the planet warms, because warmer air can hold more water. Clausius–Clapeyron...

A new study is sharpening a long-debated connection in Earth science: how the chemistry of seawater records itself inside the...

Severe droughts across the ancient Eastern Mediterranean were most likely driven by the rare alignment of multiple natural climate cycles,...

A new study reports that crustose coralline algae (CCA)—a group of reef-building red algae—can act as a natural shield for...

A new study paints a high-resolution picture of how mercury moves from Greenland’s icy interior to the surrounding ocean—an environmental...

Researchers have narrowed down the composition of the asteroid that helped trigger Earth’s most famous mass extinction 66 million years...