Earth Science

A flood remembered for centuries as the “St. Mary Magdalene’s Flood” was not a single catastrophe after all. A sweeping...

A hidden chemical reaction in soil, sediment and decaying plant material may be releasing far more methanol into the environment...

A new study has drawn attention to a hidden chemical world suspended in the air: tiny aqueous droplets that can...

A new study published in Nature Communications describes a catalytic strategy that could change how difficult-to-remove pollutants are treated in...

Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, marshes are disappearing at the edges—one collapsing bank, drowned grass...

Cities are becoming laboratories of disease emergence, and in Benin, the most revealing evidence may be developing in places that...

A new study proposes a data-driven way to identify which chemicals pose the greatest risk to children’s cardiovascular health, using...

A new study warns that climate change is not affecting every part of China’s expressway system equally—and that the differences...

For nearly two centuries, dinosaurs have moved from the margins of natural history into the center of one of science’s...

A familiar garden flower is emerging as an unlikely contender in the race to make textile dyeing cleaner. Researchers Das,...