Earth Science

Forests are often described as if they occupy a single, uniform layer of living green above the ground. Yet beneath...

Collodaria, the glassy ocean drifters that build elaborate silica skeletons and host microscopic algae, are challenging a familiar assumption about...

Cape Town to Host First International Palaeontological Congress in Africa From 30 November to 3 December 2026, Cape Town will...

A quiet warning is emerging from Brazil’s forests: the trees that have helped slow the buildup of carbon dioxide in...

Rivers are often described as dangerous when they overflow, but a new global analysis suggests that the most revealing threshold...

A crack pulling through a water-filled solid may appear to follow the simplest possible path: tension opens the material, the...

Marine carbon dioxide removal has often been presented as a vast, blue opportunity: use the ocean’s chemistry and circulation to...

Mangrove forests are often portrayed as ecosystems that survive only when enclosed by legal protection, but a new study points...

At first glance, an olivine crystal recovered from the seafloor may look like an inert green grain—a tiny mineral fragment...

A 15,000-year-old environmental record preserved in the sediments of Yellowstone National Park’s Lower Geyser Basin is offering scientists a new...