Earth Science

When a major earthquake strikes a modern city, the buildings most likely to protect their occupants are those designed with...

In a village in India's Kaveri Delta, two paddy farmers live a few kilometres apart on land with identical soils,...

One of the fastest-warming seas on Earth is set to become dramatically hotter still, according to a new study that...

As rising seas push salty water further inland, the forests that line the coast are quietly drowning—not just above ground,...

Streamflow forecasting has long been one of hydrology's most stubborn challenges, but a new study from Türkiye suggests that deep...

Engineers assessing whether a historic stone church façade will survive an earthquake have long faced an uncomfortable dilemma: the most...

The Indian summer monsoon has long been one of the most consequential and most stubbornly difficult climate phenomena on Earth...

The Weather Research and Forecasting Model has long been one of the most powerful and widely used tools in atmospheric...

In the sunlit layers of the world ocean, a remarkable group of microscopic organisms quietly blurs the boundary between plant...

A before-and-after study of Brazil's Sinos River shows that extreme floods reshape trace metal contamination and ecological risk mainly by...