Earth Science

The Geological Society of America, one of the world's largest and most influential professional organizations for the earth sciences, has...

In the continuing struggle to clean up the exhaust streams of diesel engines, power plants, and industrial boilers, one of...

Beneath the mudflats of Laizhou Bay on China's eastern coast, an invisible drama unfolds every day: toxic aromatic hydrocarbons from...

In the years since devastating wildfires have swept across the American West, scientists have grown increasingly concerned about a danger...

Juvenile parrotfish may be small, but the places they choose to feed could shape the future of Caribbean coral reefs....

In the semi-arid landscapes of Rajasthan, India, where summer rains arrive as brief, isolated bursts between long stretches of punishing...

In a fast-urbanising secondary town in southwestern Nigeria, the success or failure of environmental sanitation programmes ultimately rests on a...

In the forested borderlands of northeast China, where Amur tigers prowl the same valleys as farmers and foresters, scientists have...

Brazil's river monitoring systems, run by four separate agencies using incompatible protocols and classification scales, systematically conceal regulatory water quality...

Deep beneath the rolling terrain of China's Jiaodong Peninsula, gold deposits lie hidden far beyond the reach of surface observation,...