Earth Science

Extreme heat is no longer keeping to the calendar. A new study led by climatologist Catherine Ivanovich of NASA's Goddard...

Leaf nitrogen, the chemical currency of photosynthesis, is not distributed within leaves at random. According to a new study published...

Deep in the lower reaches of China's Jinsha River, on the bank of a reservoir whose water level swings by...

Antarctica has long been treated as the quiet edge of Earth's geological record, a continent buried beneath kilometres of ice...

Coral skeletons that grew in some of the saltiest waters on Earth are revealing new secrets about how these iconic...

As wildfires grow larger, more frequent, and more destructive across every inhabited continent, a team of researchers in India has...

In an era defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—conditions that researchers now routinely abbreviate as VUCA—the ability of companies...

Every spring, Europe's forests are showered with far more than rain. Wind-pollinated trees release staggering quantities of pollen into the...

Researchers in Brazil have demonstrated that a hybrid advanced oxidation process can transform pharmaceutical-laden wastewater into an effluent that is...

Beneath the scorched earth of an abandoned open-pit mine in northeastern China, an invisible tracer is leaking toward the surface,...