Earth Science

A new study paints a high-resolution picture of how mercury moves from Greenland’s icy interior to the surrounding ocean—an environmental...

Researchers have narrowed down the composition of the asteroid that helped trigger Earth’s most famous mass extinction 66 million years...

Breaking news from oceanography: a new study reports that waters flowing out of the Mediterranean may help “power” the deep...

Rising temperatures are no longer uniform across the globe. A new study reports that high-altitude regions of the Tibetan Plateau...

China’s landmark Shan-Shui Initiative, launched to protect and restore landscapes across mountains, rivers, forests, farmland, lakes, grasslands and deserts, has...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment reports that the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) leaves a distinct, asymmetric...

In a new study, researchers report that removing agricultural forest cover and later restoring it through afforestation can reshape soil...

A new study is challenging a basic assumption in how the world designs electric vehicles for a low-carbon future. Researchers...

Wildfires in equatorial Southeast Asia can start small and rapidly evolve into region-wide disasters—but scientists have now mapped how that...

A new Nature Communications study has used high-frequency observations to “zoom in” on how supraglacial lakes—meltwater ponds sitting on the...