Earth Science

Earthquakes along oceanic transform faults have long been treated as relatively straightforward events: two sections of seafloor slide horizontally past...

Nitrogen is the quiet force behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements—and one of its most dangerous environmental problems. The element...

Mining can leave behind a landscape that appears quiet on the surface while the rock mass beneath it continues to...

A new study has identified a fundamental difference between the asteroid samples returned to Earth from Ryugu and Bennu and...

The global wildlife trade may be approaching a regulatory turning point. A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution...

Zuo, Lin, Xu and colleagues have unveiled a strategy that could make one of the most powerful chemical tools for...

For decades, migration has often been explained as a response to poverty, conflict, climate hazards, or the search for jobs....

For decades, hurricane danger has been communicated through a familiar number: maximum sustained wind speed. The faster the winds, the...

Vampire bats are confronting a rapidly changing night-time world, and a new study suggests that human disturbance can reshape not...

Satellite observations are revealing a pandemic-era transformation of the planet’s cities: global urban expansion slowed during COVID-19, while the gap...