Earth Science

In the semi-arid landscapes of Rajasthan, India, where summer rains arrive as brief, isolated bursts between long stretches of punishing...

In a fast-urbanising secondary town in southwestern Nigeria, the success or failure of environmental sanitation programmes ultimately rests on a...

In the forested borderlands of northeast China, where Amur tigers prowl the same valleys as farmers and foresters, scientists have...

Brazil's river monitoring systems, run by four separate agencies using incompatible protocols and classification scales, systematically conceal regulatory water quality...

Deep beneath the rolling terrain of China's Jiaodong Peninsula, gold deposits lie hidden far beyond the reach of surface observation,...

In the floodplain communities of the Peruvian Amazon, danger rarely announces itself through raw magnitude alone. A new study published...

An editorial published this week in Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering (FESE) formally recognizes the journal's best papers of...

When earthquakes strike, engineers worry most about a building's frame staying upright — but some of the costliest damage often...

Hidden beneath the rolling horse farms of central Kentucky lies one of the most enigmatic water systems in North America,...

When the China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT) lifted off from the Gobi Desert in October 2018, oceanographers on both sides of...