A new partnership between researchers and community members created a comprehensive network of weather stations across ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The 22 July 2024 landslide in Ethiopia. Image posted to Facebook by ...

The Sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field–carrying particles, or plasma, in all directions. This solar wind interacts with the magnetic fields and atmospheres of several of our solar ...

Quantum diamond microscopes like this one are used to map magnetic fields at the submillimeter to submicrometer scale. Credit: Ualisson Bellon This newsletter rocks. Get the most fascinating science ...

A postfire debris flow (PFDF) fan covers California State Route 70 and extends into the Feather River following the 2021 Dixie Fire. Credit: Don Lindsay/California Geological Survey, Public Domain On ...

Rainfall can wash topsoil from farm fields, a process that more extreme rainfall events will accelerate. Credit: John/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Good topsoil does not accumulate quickly. Less than a tenth ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a remote sensing technique used to observe Earth’s surface and has applications in military operations, scientific research, agriculture, and more. Compared to in ...

A glacier’s surface crevasses, seen here, form in response to faster flow and higher stresses. New research found that a key modeling variable may be causing scientists to underestimate ice flow.

Scientific progress rarely follows a straight path. Instead, it develops through open discussion, critical evaluation, and the testing of new ideas. The exchange between authors and colleagues ...

At an abandoned used lead-acid battery recycling site near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a team of researchers scraped the top layer of the soil and treated it with phosphate to remove toxic lead. Credit: Pure ...

The palm leaf pages of Babad Lombok, written in Old Javanese, may provide clues about a little-known 1257 volcanic eruption in what is now Indonesia. Credit: Franck Lavigne Fire rained from the sky.

Emperor penguins molt every summer, replacing all their feathers over the period of about a month. Credit: Peter Fretwell Peter Fretwell, a remote sensing scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, ...