Once-hidden North American mounds could reveal valuable information about pre-contact Native Americans

Coastal scientists have developed a new global framework to more accurately assess how mangroves along different types of coastlines store carbon in their soil

Researchers used data from the Earth orbiting satellite Terra in the same way planetary geologists have been using data from the Mars orbiting satellite Odyssey

An expedition in August/September seeks to increase our understanding about the changing Arctic frontier

Nitrogen from bedrock can result in side-by-side productive forests and barren acidic areas

A high-resolution laser helped to unveil scientific clues that were lying in plain sight and yet remarkably went unnoticed until now

Ewingite was found on a damp mine wall in the Czech Republic and was in the same region where uranium ore was mined for Marie Curie’s groundbreaking studies of radioactivity a century ago

Scientists have used some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to model ground shaking for a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Hayward fault and show more realistic motions than ever before

Scientists used high-tech tools to more precisely view where cleared sites were and how much lasting impact they had on the rainforest in the Amazon Basin in South America

Scientists have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth