Earth Science

Mars has long been imagined as a planet with a thin, quiescent atmosphere, dominated by dust storms and dramatic seasonal...

A sweeping review argues that serpentinite, the hydrated rock of oceanic mantle, can serve as a strategic platform for permanent...

A new Nature Communications study reports an archipelago-wide shift toward arbuscular mycorrhizal tree dominance across Japan, driven by the interplay...

A new Nature Geoscience study reconstructs the rapid, stepped collapse of Hunga volcano's submarine caldera during the 15 January 2022...

A giant 21.9-million-year-old volcanic deposit in northern Chile has preserved the shape of a buried Andean landscape, revealing that the...

When an earthquake strikes a city, the question that keeps engineers and emergency planners awake at night is not whether...

The summer rains that fall on the Western Himalaya—rains that feed glaciers, rivers, and hundreds of millions of people downstream—appear...

For decades, geologists have relied on a handful of carefully drawn diagrams to decipher the origins of the ocean floor's...

In the mountains of Shaanxi Province, China, a catastrophic rockslide that killed 65 people in 2015 has now yielded the...

China's forests may look like vast, unbroken seas of green from above, but a new study reveals that the edges...