Earth Science

A hidden layer of Earth’s atmosphere may be influencing what happens beneath our feet weeks later, according to a study...

For decades, volcanic danger has been associated with spectacular explosions: towering columns of ash, incandescent fountains and fast-moving pyroclastic flows....

The ocean has just yielded another clue to one of its most important—and least visible—chemical conversations. In a study published...

Coastal restoration has become one of the most closely watched strategies in the global fight against climate change, but a...

For decades, planetary scientists have treated meteorites as fragments of worlds that no longer exist—or that remain hidden inside larger...

A new study reports a potentially transformative approach to one of the most stubborn challenges in environmental cleanup: removing toxic...

The Cambrian Explosion is often described as nature’s most dramatic evolutionary acceleration: in a geologically brief interval, nearly all major...

Clean water technology may be entering a new era in which molecular architecture, rather than simply chemical composition, determines how...

At the bottom of the world’s oceans, where the seafloor is pulled apart at one of the slowest rates on...

A 360-million-year-old fossil plant from China has revealed the earliest known example of seed-bearing leaves crowded with ovules, providing an...