Earth Science

For more than a century, scientists, public agencies and local authorities have collected water samples from rivers across the United...

A revolution in animal evolution may have been driven by one of nature’s least glamorous products: fossilized feces. An international...

Qinghai Lake, China’s largest saline lake, continues to capture atmospheric carbon even when its surface is sealed beneath winter ice,...

A hidden heat source deep beneath western Canada may be reshaping the geology of the continent, according to a new...

A new study has identified thermodynamics as the central force behind a recent increase in surface melting across the Antarctic...

An international team of paleontologists has proposed a new way to reconstruct how dinosaurs processed food—by studying the stones they...

Glacial lakes high in the Himalayas can appear remote and silent, yet when their unstable natural dams fail, they can...

A microscopic animal best known for surviving some of Earth’s harshest conditions has become the focus of a discovery that...

Tiny plastic fragments buried in farmland for nearly two years did not become the chemical “sponges” scientists feared, according to...

A new study is turning attention toward one of the most consequential questions in global conservation: does it matter who...