Earth Science

Breaking news from oceanography: a new study reports that waters flowing out of the Mediterranean may help “power” the deep...

Rising temperatures are no longer uniform across the globe. A new study reports that high-altitude regions of the Tibetan Plateau...

China’s landmark Shan-Shui Initiative, launched to protect and restore landscapes across mountains, rivers, forests, farmland, lakes, grasslands and deserts, has...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment reports that the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) leaves a distinct, asymmetric...

In a new study, researchers report that removing agricultural forest cover and later restoring it through afforestation can reshape soil...

A new study is challenging a basic assumption in how the world designs electric vehicles for a low-carbon future. Researchers...

Wildfires in equatorial Southeast Asia can start small and rapidly evolve into region-wide disasters—but scientists have now mapped how that...

A new Nature Communications study has used high-frequency observations to “zoom in” on how supraglacial lakes—meltwater ponds sitting on the...

A growing body of evidence suggests that warming doesn’t simply push ecosystems toward collapse—it also triggers internal rearrangements that can...

Marine scientists have unveiled a streamlined way to forecast how spiny lobster fisheries will rise or fall—using nothing more than...