Earth Science

A thin green layer of moss may be doing something far more consequential in the world’s cold deserts than simply...

A new national-scale study suggests that canals may be more than historic transport corridors or picturesque features of urban landscapes:...

Geological carbon dioxide storage is often presented as one of the largest potential tools for slowing climate change, but a...

Antimicrobial resistance is often portrayed as a problem confined to hospitals, farms, or pharmaceutical laboratories. A new study published in...

A hidden layer of Earth’s atmosphere may be influencing what happens beneath our feet weeks later, according to a study...

For decades, volcanic danger has been associated with spectacular explosions: towering columns of ash, incandescent fountains and fast-moving pyroclastic flows....

The ocean has just yielded another clue to one of its most important—and least visible—chemical conversations. In a study published...

Coastal restoration has become one of the most closely watched strategies in the global fight against climate change, but a...

For decades, planetary scientists have treated meteorites as fragments of worlds that no longer exist—or that remain hidden inside larger...

A new study reports a potentially transformative approach to one of the most stubborn challenges in environmental cleanup: removing toxic...