Earth Science

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...

A new study is bringing artificial intelligence into the fight against one of the most persistent visual signatures of industrial...

Oklahoma’s winter wheat fields may be influenced by an invisible biological network beneath the soil, according to a new study...

A new study in Nature Communications reports that tropical processes have repeatedly driven major changes in monsoon strength across the...

A vast slab of oceanic crust can plunge beneath a continent, disappear into Earth’s mantle, and still shape where volcanoes...

Earthquakes along oceanic transform faults have long been treated as relatively straightforward events: two sections of seafloor slide horizontally past...

Nitrogen is the quiet force behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements—and one of its most dangerous environmental problems. The element...