Earth Science

A new viral science release from researchers in Costa Rica links coffee plantations to a previously underappreciated ecological phenomenon: fungal...

A new study has mapped the deep plumbing system feeding Laguna del Maule, one of Chile’s best-studied supervolcano regions, revealing...

China’s landmark National Action Plan to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance (2016–2020) may have left a measurable signature in the country’s soils,...

A new study in Nature Communications reports that the Yellow River Basin’s energy transition can reduce water stress and limit...

A new study is reshaping how scientists think about Earth’s deep water cycle. In lower-mantle conditions, Ishii and colleagues report...

Soil is often portrayed as a quiet reservoir, but new research suggests it is also a hidden workplace for viruses—specifically,...

A new study suggests that “planetary trapped waves” traveling through the ocean-atmosphere system may act as a hidden relay, linking...

A new study in Communications Earth & Environment spotlights how China’s heavy-duty trucking system is driving unequal environmental burdens—and what...

A new study in Nature Communications delivers a granular, unit-by-unit look at how the world’s coal power fleet could curb...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that cooling during the mid- to late Holocene reshaped how...