Earth Science

DALLAS (SMU) – There’s an important dividing line in the history of recent Texas earthquakes – those occurring before and...

Drylands, found across every continent, cover about 45% of the Earth's land surface and support 38% of the human population....

The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier.Credit: Joshua Brown The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier. A new...

Chestnut Hill, Mass (8/1/2024) – Rocks recently exposed to the sky after being covered with prehistoric ice show that tropical...

Rice University climate scientist Sylvia Dee has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the agency’s most prestigious early career...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have detected geochemical signatures of magma pooling and melting beneath the...

Sapphires are among the most precious gems, yet they consist solely of chemically “contaminated” aluminum oxide, or corundum. Worldwide, these...

Local decentralized energy systems, known as microgrids, can make urban infrastructures more resilient and reduce risks for the population, for...

New research shows that California’s Central Valley, known as America’s breadbasket, gets as much as half of its groundwater from...

New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) has found that the Southern...