Earth Science

A powerful earthquake may do more than fracture rock and reshape landscapes. It may also trigger a burst of chemical...

A hidden microbial process is reshaping the flow of nitrogen into Arctic fjords, potentially accelerating ecological change in some of...

Earth system science is facing a problem that is both enormous and surprisingly practical: there is now more climate and...

A region of the Arctic Ocean often treated as a symbol of unstoppable summer ice loss has delivered an unexpected...

Across the central-eastern Eurasian Steppe, communities separated by thousands of kilometers appear to have changed what they ate at strikingly...

Groundwater, the hidden reservoir beneath soils, rocks and sediments, supports drinking-water supplies and agricultural irrigation for billions of people. Yet...

During the great ice ages of the Pleistocene, Earth’s climate sometimes shifted with startling speed. Temperatures could change dramatically within...

A thin green layer of moss may be doing something far more consequential in the world’s cold deserts than simply...

A new national-scale study suggests that canals may be more than historic transport corridors or picturesque features of urban landscapes:...

Geological carbon dioxide storage is often presented as one of the largest potential tools for slowing climate change, but a...