Earth Science

Coastal scientists have long known that nitrogen can change rapidly in estuaries, but routine monitoring often sees only a fraction...

In the race to predict floods, snowmelt and seasonal water supplies, artificial intelligence has often been judged by a single...

Earthquake damage is usually measured in lives disrupted, buildings condemned and repair bills accumulated. But every cracked column, shattered partition...

The Brahmaputra Valley is famous for monsoon rains, sweeping floods and one of the world’s great river systems. Yet beneath...

Ships can disappear into the visual chaos of a coastline, not because they are invisible, but because radar sees a...

A long-standing assumption in numerical weather prediction is being challenged by new research from Southwest China: even kilometer-scale atmospheric models...

Asteroid Bennu is revealing a paradox at the heart of the early Solar System: the small, dark world preserved some...

Groundwater is supplying more than 43 percent of the population in Ghana’s Sunyani West Municipality, but the same landscapes that...

A new study has identified a major climate connection linking El Niño events in the central Pacific to wintertime circulation...

A coral reef can appear healthier or more degraded depending on how scientists measure it. A diver tracing a line...