Earth Science

On 31 October 2017, Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA confirmed that crude oil had escaped from its Amuay refinery, one...

Beneath the world's farmland lies one of agriculture's strangest assets: an estimated 3.5 billion tons of phosphorus, quietly banked in...

Some of a water utility's most consequential decisions are buried underground: which pipe diameters to lay, how tall to raise...

Rust rarely makes headlines, yet inside thousands of reinforced concrete buildings exposed to sea air, de-icing salts, and industrial pollution,...

In Hyderabad, one of the fastest-growing megacities in southern India, the quality of the air can shift dramatically between morning...

Every forest, marsh, and meadow along the U.S. East Coast inhales and exhales carbon dioxide in a silent, ceaseless rhythm,...

Beneath the iron-grey waters of Ryder Bay, on the western Antarctic Peninsula, one of the Southern Ocean's most abundant large...

For decades, the most trustworthy thermometer for planet Earth has not hung in a weather station on land. It sits,...

Gabbro rarely gets the spotlight. It is the dark, dense, coarse-grained rock that crystallizes deep beneath mid-ocean ridges, forms the...

Every year the global textile industry discharges billions of liters of wastewater that is two kinds of pollution at once:...