A new study found that access to air-conditioning is a stronger predictor of emergency department visits related to PM2.5 exposure from smoke than factors such as race, age, and socioeconomic status.

New research shows that warming beginning about 13,000 years ago contributed to a proliferation of landslides in Iceland.

Peering deep under California’s Sierra Nevada, Schulte-Pelkum and Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric foundering in ...

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

From hordes rushing into national parks to mourners holding glacier funerals, tourists wanting to take in threatened natural places may be shifting visitation patterns.

The geomorphology of a protected atoll likely contributed to its ability to maintain its shoreline over a turbulent half-century.

Swirling currents called mesoscale eddies occupy about 22% of the ice-free Southern Ocean. Using data from drifting floats ...

Billions of years ago, iron-oxidizing microbes may have competed for dissolved iron in the ocean, with some strains producing toxic gases that smothered their rivals.

Emerging consensus on the structure and dynamics of Greenland’s lithosphere may help improve forecasts of climate and sea level change and develop solutions for sustainable resource use.

Nevada se está convirtiendo en un gran productor de litio, gracias a la topografía, el clima y la serendipia geológica.

Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the Gaia hypothesis—the idea, first introduced by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, that Earth ...