Earth Science

At first glance, an olivine crystal recovered from the seafloor may look like an inert green grain—a tiny mineral fragment...

A 15,000-year-old environmental record preserved in the sediments of Yellowstone National Park’s Lower Geyser Basin is offering scientists a new...

Southwest China’s dramatic greening may be facing an invisible limit beneath the surface. A regional analysis of karst forests and...

Earth’s climate system is entering territory not seen in the past millennium, while a wave of new atmospheric research reveals...

China’s vast campaign to expand tree cover has long been presented as one of the world’s most important nature-based responses...

A hidden chemical engine beneath our feet may be helping transform ordinary soil into a source of atmospheric pollution. In...

A quiet scientific crisis is unfolding high in the world’s mountains. As glaciers retreat, they are not only shrinking as...

Tropical forests have long been portrayed as a single, vast climate machine: warm, wet and extraordinarily productive. But a new...

A new mathematical study is bringing a data-informed perspective to one of Sudan’s most persistent public-health threats: cholera. Published in...

North Sinai’s social-housing blocks could become significantly more comfortable—and potentially less dependent on energy-intensive cooling—by turning local waste into building...