With majestic rainforests, volcanoes, and an extraordinary story of wildlife conservation, Rwanda—roughly the size of ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, in the pores and crevices of rock, live huge communities of microorganisms. They are invisible to the naked eye—yet they play a central role in the quality of our ...

Sinkholes are surprisingly selective. They require the right rock, the right water chemistry, the right underground space and ...

Across large parts of northern Tanzania, gully erosion – soil erosion caused by flowing water – is cutting deep scars through fertile farmland, grazing areas, roads and even villages. These gullies ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

The ecological value of the Toyyar Lake landscape extends far beyond water. The lateritic plateau adjoining Toyyar Lake at ...

The Perseverance rover is continuing its mission to find clues about the geological past of Mars. The rover’s main goals are ...

As the world races to electrify everything from cars to cities, the demand for high-performance, long-lasting batteries is ...

The hidden hemisphere of the Moon has long been painted as a quiet, cratered backwater, but a new batch of samples has upended that picture. Material returned from the far side now points to a ...

Biochar as a material is not novel. It has been produced by humans for more than 2,000 years. But churning out the material ...