Earth Science

A team led by Wu, Hong, and colleagues reports a practical route to curb nitrous oxide (N₂O) from industrial systems...

Migratory birds are more than travelers across continents—they can act like moving engineers of the climate, according to new research...

A new study suggests that serpentine—a common mineral in Earth’s oceanic crust—can act as an unexpectedly efficient “water conduit” during...

Japan’s 2011 triple disaster—earthquake, tsunami, and the ensuing nuclear crisis—triggered a wave of population displacement that planners and policymakers continue...

A team of Virginia Tech geoscientists has developed a satellite-based way to quantify how dams reshape river temperatures across the...

A new study in Nature Communications reports a promising route to clean up nitrogen-oxide pollution by harnessing an unexpected chemical...

China’s Jiaodong Peninsula, long famed for its gold, may now have a clearer chemical origin story—thanks to new isotopic evidence...

A fossil’s location today tells only part of its story. Reconstructing where that same specimen sat hundreds of millions of...

Two hundred million years ago, vast CO₂ emissions from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province helped trigger the end-Triassic mass extinction,...

A new study published in Nature Communications links the biology of decay to the chemistry of manganese in ways that...