Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

This year has been the worst for the Amazon rainforest in almost two decades. Although there has been a measured decline in ...

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that California could lose up to 75 percent of its beaches in the next 75 years. The changes have sparked multimillion-dollar restoration projects and lawsuits ...

Researchers have uncovered key insights into the dangerous phenomenon of 'river avulsion,' offering a way to predict when and where rivers may suddenly and dramatically change course.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A federal judge has found HRK Holdings LLC liable for a major pollution event in 2021. HRK’s Piney ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

For example, ballast water release from cargo ships delivered more than half ... Lakes, rivers and wetlands make up about one ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

The implications of not understanding the formation of the inner core are far-reaching. Previous estimates of the inner ...

The Earth’s ambipolar electric field is weak but strong enough to control the shape and evolution of the upper atmosphere.

A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a ...