Even a single person in the snow can exert enough pressure on it to cause a buried weak layer of...
Securing the world’s water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Research at Stockholm University is now...
Particles in wildfire smoke can lower air quality and harm human health. Smoke aerosols can also influence weather and climate...
Scientists have long been fascinated by the formation of gold nuggets, often found nestled within quartz veins. New research led...
Over the last three decades, California has seen increasing erosion after major wildfires—a phenomenon that not only endangers water resources...
The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest...
A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by scientists from The...
Nearly half of the world’s land surface is now classified as drylands and these areas are accelerating their own proliferation,...
Scientists have revealed how a “tag-team” between the oceans and continents millions of years ago devastated marine life—and altered the...
Climate change will move and reduce the land suitable for growing food and timber, putting the production of these two...
A new study sheds light on the vital role that the mixing of Atlantic and Arctic waters plays in sustaining...
A new study paves the way to understanding biotic recovery after an ecological crisis in the Mediterranean Sea about 5.5...