Earth Science

In a development that could reshape how engineers approach one of the most persistent weaknesses in reinforced concrete buildings, researchers...

In a landmark study that spans more than a century of rainfall records and brings together classical statistics with cutting-edge...

In the world of geology, few tasks are as fundamental—or as laborious—as examining rock thin sections under the microscope. These...

In a former military bunker near Davos, Switzerland, scientists at ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche...

A sweeping new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the rise and fall of mammal communities across Central...

When people search Google for information about heat waves and floods, they tend to do so in the very years...

A quarter-century of teaching groundwater scientists how to extract decision-relevant information from numerical models has prompted one of the field's...

When waves break along a shoreline, they do more than throw spray into the air. They physically push the ocean's...

In the turbid waters where the Yangtze River meets the East China Sea, one of the ocean's least understood chemical...

In the flood-prone delta lands of Odisha, India, where the Mahanadi, Brahmani, and Baitarani rivers converge on the Bay of...