Earth Science

A new Nature Geoscience study reconstructs the rapid, stepped collapse of Hunga volcano's submarine caldera during the 15 January 2022...

A giant 21.9-million-year-old volcanic deposit in northern Chile has preserved the shape of a buried Andean landscape, revealing that the...

When an earthquake strikes a city, the question that keeps engineers and emergency planners awake at night is not whether...

The summer rains that fall on the Western Himalaya—rains that feed glaciers, rivers, and hundreds of millions of people downstream—appear...

For decades, geologists have relied on a handful of carefully drawn diagrams to decipher the origins of the ocean floor's...

In the mountains of Shaanxi Province, China, a catastrophic rockslide that killed 65 people in 2015 has now yielded the...

China's forests may look like vast, unbroken seas of green from above, but a new study reveals that the edges...

For decades, marine ecologists have operated on a broadly shared assumption: as you descend into the sea, species richness thins...

A three-decade study of Aligarh District, India, links the dramatic rise of rice, potato, and millet and the decline of...

In the highlands of western Ethiopia, a quiet ecological collapse is unfolding, and for the first time scientists have captured...