New research shows that unplanted agricultural lands are behind most of the state’s anthropogenic dust events.

Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.

The first person of color and first Earth scientist to serve as director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science ...

Twenty years of data from around the world show that areas that are not too dry and not too wet are most conducive to ...

A new framework aims to better equip scientists, communities, and decisionmakers to characterize data and rapidly respond to ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom that glaciers just carve landscapes, they can also form low-relief surfaces by sheltering ...

La extracción desmedida de aguas subterráneas podría estar obligando a los ríos a infiltrar agua hacia el subsuelo, según ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Dos imágenes muestran el mismo árbol, antes (izquierda) y después (derecha) del impacto de un rayo. En la imagen de la derecha, el árbol no está cubierto de enredaderas leñosas y algunos de los árbole ...

Southern Oscillation’s global reach and complex ocean–atmosphere interactions across timescales, two simple, elegant equations capture its key dynamics and defining properties.

Researchers have found chemicals from personal care products like shampoo, deodorant, and laundry soap in Antarctic snow.

Using in-situ observational data, scientists reveal that Kuroshio intrusions through the Luzon Strait increase small phytoplankton in the South China Sea.