Earth Science

For the first time, scientists have produced a complete financial X-ray of an entire nation's spending on nature — and...

Every sofa, car seat, laptop charger, and crib mattress owes much of its fire resistance to a family of chemicals...

Every day, thousands of trucks and cars cross steel bridges without giving a second thought to what happens at the...

Deep beneath Earth's surface, water rarely moves the way maps suggest. In fractured rock—granite, limestone, or sandstone riven by networks...

On 31 October 2017, Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA confirmed that crude oil had escaped from its Amuay refinery, one...

Beneath the world's farmland lies one of agriculture's strangest assets: an estimated 3.5 billion tons of phosphorus, quietly banked in...

Some of a water utility's most consequential decisions are buried underground: which pipe diameters to lay, how tall to raise...

Rust rarely makes headlines, yet inside thousands of reinforced concrete buildings exposed to sea air, de-icing salts, and industrial pollution,...

In Hyderabad, one of the fastest-growing megacities in southern India, the quality of the air can shift dramatically between morning...

Every forest, marsh, and meadow along the U.S. East Coast inhales and exhales carbon dioxide in a silent, ceaseless rhythm,...