Earth Science

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...

Mining can leave behind a landscape that appears quiet on the surface while the rock mass beneath it continues to...

A new study has identified a fundamental difference between the asteroid samples returned to Earth from Ryugu and Bennu and...

The global wildlife trade may be approaching a regulatory turning point. A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution...

Zuo, Lin, Xu and colleagues have unveiled a strategy that could make one of the most powerful chemical tools for...

For decades, migration has often been explained as a response to poverty, conflict, climate hazards, or the search for jobs....