On icy ocean worlds, a research framework built around the theory of organic chemical evolution could surface deeper insights than a hunt limited to direct evidence of life.

The speed and shape of changes to the Caspian Sea’s coastline depend on a variety of geologic and anthropogenic forces, ...

A herculean effort to fight back woody plants in the Konza Prairie has largely failed. The outcome shows how difficult it can ...

Climate change is expected to lead to more frequent and intense drought, which in turn causes soil to crack, releasing more carbon dioxide and further warming the planet.

Scientists argue that paleomagnetic field tests preserve a geomagnetic field record acquired as chemical remnant magnetization in banded iron formations in southwest Greenland.

Western disturbances are hanging out over India for longer, adversely affecting water security in the country.

Climate change is bringing increased variability to annual snowfall, which affects how much water is stored for ecosystem and ...

Land data assimilation advances scientific understanding and serves as an engineering tool for land surface process studies, reflecting the trend of harmonizing theory and data in the big data era.

Plants living in the shadows grew faster when exposed to excess carbon dioxide. But this short-term effect could vanish in a ...

Researchers mapped coral reef connectivity across the Seychelles archipelago to inform conservation efforts in the face of ...

Bufe pointed to medium-sized mountains such as the Juras in Europe and those in the Black Forest in Germany and along the ...

Advances in remote sensing offered an opportunity to redraw Greenland’s geologic map for the first time in 15 years.