geology

AP RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two history-making Black politicians and country music star Eric Church were among the six latest recipients of North Carolina’s…

Earth's atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that natural balance, but there's…

Annie Proulx was not able to travel for her book on wetlands. She had imagined journeys into the disappearing Siberian mires and the English fens, which are already mostly lost. She would…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal—an…

“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and how it’s changed through time,” said Hazen.For that reason, the new papers…

The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the Mississippi,…

Meanwhile invasive Russian olive and tamarisk trees have moved in beneath the canopy, all fire-prone species. Fires in the bosque were once virtually nonexistent; now they routinely break…

From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. “It’s just miles across of river and river islands,” said Lukas Musher, a postdoctoral researcher at…

Tim Carter, Tribune Content Agency Ande lives in Puyallup, Washington, and reads my weekly column in her paper. She’s got a very common problem. In…

Just how big was the January eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano? Four months of intensive science has only bumped up the scale. You could point to the audible booms that interrupted the…