Earth Science

Hidden beneath the quiet surface of seasonal wetlands on the Delmarva Peninsula, a slow and persistent process is releasing carbon...

Drought is rarely a single, well-behaved variable. It arrives as a combination of severity, duration and magnitude, and it strikes...

When the Mw 7.7 Pazarcık earthquake tore through southeastern Türkiye on 6 February 2023, it did more than level buildings...

In the vast, water-scarce landscapes of Central Asia, a deficit of rainfall does not stay a deficit of rainfall for...

Researchers in South China have unveiled a new data-driven framework that promises to transform how explorers hunt for deeply buried...

The Geological Society of America, one of the world's largest and most influential professional organizations for the earth sciences, has...

In the continuing struggle to clean up the exhaust streams of diesel engines, power plants, and industrial boilers, one of...

Beneath the mudflats of Laizhou Bay on China's eastern coast, an invisible drama unfolds every day: toxic aromatic hydrocarbons from...

In the years since devastating wildfires have swept across the American West, scientists have grown increasingly concerned about a danger...

Juvenile parrotfish may be small, but the places they choose to feed could shape the future of Caribbean coral reefs....