More than 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers are still searching for new ways to tackle disastrous ...

New evidence from the Natural Hazards Commission – Toka Tū Ake (NHC) shows that landslides are now New Zealand's most costly ...

A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples found that largely unmonitored industrial compounds are widespread ...

Between 2000 and 2020, 42% of tree lines around the world crept upward, largely because of climate change. But 25% moved ...

The Amazon saw its worst wildfire season in decades in 2024. New research examines the consequences. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA Wildfires in the rainy, humid Amazon might once have seemed unlikely, but ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that impacts science and scientists today. Human-driven climate change is driving the rise of sea levels ...

If water is the key to life, then oxygen is the key to animal life. All animals breathe oxygen. Despite decades of research, however, scientists still don’t know when Earth’s atmosphere held enough ...

Snowpacks in places such as this windswept alpine pass in the Front Range of Colorado are difficult to characterize with current remote sensing methods because of cloud cover, complex topography, and ...

New research investigates seismicity in South Africa’s Karoo Basin, seen here. Credit: Inka Stinka/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Roughly the size of Texas, the Karoo Basin of central western South Africa is ...

Tree branches, tree trunks, mud, and building materials were deposited by a debris flow after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in Colorado. Credit: USGS/Jason Kean, Public Domain Months after wildfires ...

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