Earth Science

Clearing fleshy macroalgae from degraded inshore reefs can briefly open a window of opportunity for young corals, according to a...

Deep within the semi-evergreen forests of northeastern Bangladesh, some of the country's most threatened plants cling to life on the...

Wuhan, Chengdu, Nanjing, Suzhou and Xuzhou—some of the mightiest economic engines strung along China's longest river—have spent the better part...

Across the world's farmlands, floodplains, and industrial peripheries, a vast accounting exercise is quietly underway: measuring how much lead, cadmium,...

In laboratories on the Indonesian island of Java, two of nature's most accomplished insect assassins have been recruited for a...

In a development that could reshape how geologists hunt for one of the cleanest fossil fuels on Earth, a team...

For the first time, scientists have produced a complete financial X-ray of an entire nation's spending on nature — and...

Every sofa, car seat, laptop charger, and crib mattress owes much of its fire resistance to a family of chemicals...

Every day, thousands of trucks and cars cross steel bridges without giving a second thought to what happens at the...

Deep beneath Earth's surface, water rarely moves the way maps suggest. In fractured rock—granite, limestone, or sandstone riven by networks...