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

NOAA’s hurricane outlook forecasts the likelihood of tropical storms such as 2015’s Hurricane Jimena, seen here. Credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 In its annual forecast of the upcoming ...

An artist’s concept depicts what the Earth-analogue planet might look like, with the white dwarf star in the background. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Earth’s future is bleak. At best, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, global sea level has risen by about 20 centimeters (roughly 8 inches) [Fox-Kemper et al., 2021]. As a result, coastal and island communities around the world ...

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may drop a widely-used future emissions scenario as it develops its seventh climate report. In part due to the dropping cost of renewable ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. AFP has posted a very good overview of the hazards posed by ...

A render of the completed Cheekeye Debris Barrier. Image via the District of Squamish. In British Columbia a CAN$115 million project is almost complete to mitigate the risk posed by debris flows to ...

Fair peer review is a necessity for research across all scientific disciplines. Thousands of experts volunteer their time each year to advance scientific understanding and provide feedback to their ...

Lava piles from the ancient Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) are clearly visible in the peaks of the Atlas Mountains outside Midelt, Morocco. Credit: Andrea Marzoli A single pulse of activity ...

Seventy-five years ago, on 18–19 September 1941, the Earth experienced a great magnetic storm, one of the most intense ever recorded. It arrived at a poignant moment in history, when radio and ...