Earth Science

The smallest wetlands may be doing two apparently contradictory things at once: locking away carbon through vigorous plant growth while...

Water managers often face an uncomfortable mathematical reality: the decisions they must make are regional, expensive and urgent, while the...

A new earthquake-engineering study of Catania, Sicily, suggests that the seismic safety of an urban tunnel cannot be judged by...

Ethiopia’s summer rains may be governed by two vast, invisible rivers of air moving high above the ground, according to...

A new artificial-intelligence system could help geoscientists locate underground oil and gas reservoirs by turning subtle patterns in seismic data...

Karst landscapes are often described as nature’s hidden plumbing: rain disappears into cracks, sinkholes and caverns, then reappears far underground...

Global ocean wave forecasts have received a major artificial-intelligence upgrade in a study that could reshape how ships, offshore platforms,...

Phosphorus is the nutrient that can quietly transform a lake from a clear, oxygen-rich ecosystem into a green, algae-choked danger...

A new study of Spain’s Guadalquivir River Basin is challenging one of the most influential assumptions in modern water policy:...

Base isolation is one of earthquake engineering’s most successful strategies, designed to protect buildings by separating their main structure from...