Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These ...

It's probably the largest flood in our planet's history.

According to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the professional organization in charge of defining Earth’s time scale, we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent ...

Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many ...

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now confirmed ...

After Tropical Storm Helene, people were desperately trying to understand what had just happened to turn their mountain ...

The Trump administration launched such an offensive against science and American research that it's almost difficult to ...

Ohan Breiding’s film is part documentary, part lament that casts climate change as less scientific emergency than occasion ...

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

This mission will pave the way for groundbreaking observations of everything from petroleum reserves to global supplies of ...