Earth Science

A small dinosaur bone discovered more than two decades ago in Fukushima Prefecture has revealed that Japan’s Late Cretaceous coastal...

For decades, the expected story of climate change in frozen northern soils has sounded deceptively simple: temperatures rise, permafrost thaws,...

For 200,000 years, the equatorial Indian Ocean has acted as both a biological engine and a sensitive recorder of changes...

Antarctica briefly appeared to defy its long-term trajectory. Between 2021 and 2023, unusually heavy snowfall added enough mass to large...

Barcelona, 19 August 2026 — Climate patterns in the Atlantic Ocean can help predict outbreaks of cutaneous leishmaniasis in North...

Urban trees are widely seen as natural air purifiers, cooling streets while capturing particles and absorbing gaseous pollutants. But new...

Sunlight may be quietly rewriting the chemistry of Earth’s surface—and iron minerals could be at the center of the transformation....

Soil may look like an inert layer beneath our feet, but it is one of Earth’s most complex living systems—and...

Wildfires are often described as disasters that end when the flames disappear, but their chemical influence can persist long after...

A new study published in Nature Communications argues that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may be doing more than intensifying global...