Earth Science

A new study of rare volcanic rocks from Wyoming is offering scientists an unusually detailed glimpse into the chemical transformations...

A new study is drawing attention to a hidden twist in the climate system: warming may not simply reduce the...

The Wadden Sea is a place where the ground is never truly still. Twice each day, tides sweep across vast...

A desert in northern China may have been shaped not only by geology and long-term drying, but by the seasonal...

A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions in climate science: that vegetation, once relieved from drought...

Indonesia’s seagrass meadows are revealing a striking ecological divide: some are thriving as exceptionally diverse underwater habitats, while others are...

European rivers are becoming saltier, and a new study is turning that quiet chemical shift into a major environmental warning....

Phosphorus, an element essential to every harvest and every meal, is quietly becoming one of the world’s most consequential supply...

Mangroves are often portrayed as climate champions: forests rooted in tidal mud, storing carbon in waterlogged soils and protecting coastlines...

For two decades, an international team of paleontologists has been assembling what may be the largest collection of fossil carbon...