Earth Science

In the world of geology, few tasks are as fundamental—or as laborious—as examining rock thin sections under the microscope. These...

In a former military bunker near Davos, Switzerland, scientists at ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche...

A sweeping new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the rise and fall of mammal communities across Central...

When people search Google for information about heat waves and floods, they tend to do so in the very years...

A quarter-century of teaching groundwater scientists how to extract decision-relevant information from numerical models has prompted one of the field's...

When waves break along a shoreline, they do more than throw spray into the air. They physically push the ocean's...

In the turbid waters where the Yangtze River meets the East China Sea, one of the ocean's least understood chemical...

In the flood-prone delta lands of Odisha, India, where the Mahanadi, Brahmani, and Baitarani rivers converge on the Bay of...

When two buildings stand close enough to collide during an earthquake, the consequences can be severe—and, according to a new...

The transformation of a dry sky into dry soil is one of the most consequential processes in the global water...