CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Forest soils store an estimated 40% of the world’s terrestrial carbon, but estimates suggest that around ...

A 20-year monitoring study in the discontinuous permafrost zone of Nunavik, Canada documents changing ground thermal dynamics and associated thaw subsidence.

By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, ...

Once smoke is generated, chemical reactions reshape its gaseous and particulate constituents, altering what travels downwind ...

Warming surface waters and increased stratification result in uneven loss of dissolved oxygen across the Pacific basin that ...

In Alaska’s boreal forests, a negative feedback loop between wildfires and vegetation plays an important role in governing ...

When corals get too hot, the algae that feed them can disappear, leaving them bleached. Blocking the Sun could help.

A new method for handling satellite aerosol observations boosts simulation accuracy, with potential benefits for weather and climate forecasting.

New evidence from the depths of the Red Sea supports the oxidation of manganese and iron as an engine for life in the earliest oceans.

Low-frequency infragravity waves shape shorelines, but exactly how they contribute is mysterious. A technique from Bayesian probability theory might change that.

The cephalopods had already significantly dispersed throughout the world’s oceans 67 million years ago, paving the way for their modern-day ubiquity.

The Dragonfly probe flies over sand dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan in this artist’s impression. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Strange things are afoot on Saturn’s largest moon. Alone ...