Earth Science

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....

For decades, hurricane danger has been communicated through a familiar number: maximum sustained wind speed. The faster the winds, the...

Vampire bats are confronting a rapidly changing night-time world, and a new study suggests that human disturbance can reshape not...

Satellite observations are revealing a pandemic-era transformation of the planet’s cities: global urban expansion slowed during COVID-19, while the gap...

Solar power is often presented as one of the cleanest technologies in the fight against climate change. Yet behind every...

Europe’s wetlands may look like a collection of separate lakes, marshes, floodplains and lagoons, but water rarely respects the boundaries...

Europe’s mountain summits are turning warmer in botanical terms, but not always for the reasons scientists expected. Across dozens of...

A sunscreen ingredient linked to coastal pollution may have met an unexpected opponent: a specially engineered form of carbon nitride...