Earth Science

A sunscreen ingredient linked to coastal pollution may have met an unexpected opponent: a specially engineered form of carbon nitride...

Along the U.S. East Coast, a clear day can now bring a flood. Streets fill with seawater, storm drains reverse...

Maritime shipping moves roughly 90 percent of global trade, but the vessels that sustain the world economy also release pollutants...

Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are among the most elusive pollutants in the air around us. Released by paints, fuels,...

A new study published in Nature has reconstructed one of the most extraordinary episodes of flooding ever recorded in Europe:...

Landslides are among the most destructive natural hazards in mountainous regions, capable of severing roads, burying settlements and damaging critical...

A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions about Earth’s deep interior: that the planet’s lower mantle...

A new catalyst design could help clean up one of the most stubborn sources of industrial air pollution: nitrogen oxides...

Biomass may look like an ordinary pile of agricultural residue, forestry waste, or discarded plant material, but inside that material...

For thousands of years before industrial fishing transformed the world’s oceans, Pacific coral reefs supported vastly more sharks than comparable...