Earth Science

The modern city bus has quietly become one of the cleanest combustion vehicles ever put on the road — and,...

Deep beneath the world's coal mines, fires that were sealed away months or even years earlier wait in the dark....

The Unseen Labor That Keeps Forests Alive: Scientists Call for a Radical Rethink of What Counts as a Forest By...

In one of the largest limestone terrains on Earth, an invisible threat is slipping through a maze of underground channels—and...

When a large earthquake rattles a city, the buildings most likely to surprise their engineers are often not the tallest...

A hidden geological wall beneath one of Australia’s largest iron-ore regions is forcing scientists to rethink how groundwater moves through...

The Bosporus Strait may be doing far more than shuttling water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara....

A five-month soil experiment has revealed that the fate of carbon buried beneath our feet depends on a surprisingly specific...

The world’s urban water systems are entering an era in which failure can no longer be understood as a single...

Earthquake-resistant buildings may soon gain a new layer of protection from an unusual alliance of materials operating across three different...