Earth Science

Along vast stretches of tropical shoreline, the first line of defense against the ocean is not concrete but coral. Living...

In an 80-hectare sliver of protected rainforest wedged between the spreading suburbs of Entebbe and the northern shores of Lake...

In the fast-growing municipality of Savelugu in northern Ghana, some of the most consequential neighbours are the ones nobody can...

Deep inside water treatment plants and laboratory columns around the world, a quiet chemical drama has been unfolding largely unnoticed....

The modern city bus has quietly become one of the cleanest combustion vehicles ever put on the road — and,...

Deep beneath the world's coal mines, fires that were sealed away months or even years earlier wait in the dark....

The Unseen Labor That Keeps Forests Alive: Scientists Call for a Radical Rethink of What Counts as a Forest By...

In one of the largest limestone terrains on Earth, an invisible threat is slipping through a maze of underground channels—and...

When a large earthquake rattles a city, the buildings most likely to surprise their engineers are often not the tallest...

A hidden geological wall beneath one of Australia’s largest iron-ore regions is forcing scientists to rethink how groundwater moves through...