Earth Science

A villa on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast has become the focus of a new study testing how far the...

A stubborn problem in geodesy—the science of measuring Earth’s shape and gravity—may have received a major computational upgrade. Researchers have...

A marine shoreline preserved nearly 1.2 kilometers above today’s sea level in southern Türkiye is rewriting the story of how...

A new study is drawing attention to a hidden dimension of the ozone crisis: the atmosphere’s own natural halogen chemistry....

A hidden biological tug-of-war beneath our feet may be weakening one of Earth’s most important natural defenses against climate change....

Water can remain liquid far below its familiar freezing point, but in Earth’s atmosphere it rarely gets the chance to...

A new study is revealing that beaches can behave like highly sensitive tidal instruments, changing shape and position in ways...

For decades, scientists have searched for the microscopic “hotspots” that make some mineral particles remarkably effective at triggering ice formation...

For decades, one of the most persistent explanations for the disappearance of Neanderthals has been that climate change broke their...

A new study of the Kermadec Trench has revealed how microbial life can persist in one of Earth’s most nutrient-starved...