Telecom fiber repurposed as distributed acoustic sensing arrays can image near-surface structure and potentially improve seismic hazard mapping in urban areas. How much the ground moves during an ...

Early life may have branched out when Earth’s magnetic field was at a low. Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester For more than a billion years after first emerging, life on Earth was stuck ...

Climate subsystems, such as summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, can undergo abrupt shifts as temperatures rise. Credit: khail Varentsov, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 They then ...

Dymer Creek (foreground) flows into the Chesapeake Bay near the town of White Stone, Va. The pH of coastal waterways such as the Chesapeake is influenced by both the acidification of the ocean and the ...

The Flint, Mich., water crisis began when state-appointed emergency managers switched the city’s drinking water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River in April 2014. Credit: State of ...

The 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model is the first iteration to include all 50 states. Credit: USGS Almost 15% of the U.S. population is “somewhat likely” to experience a damaging earthquake in the ...

Barium clouds and auroral arcs are seen in this still frame from a video shot from Sodankylä, Finland, with a digital camera at 18:29:44 UTC, 15 seconds after the last barium release of the Barium ...

An olive tree in Ni’lin, a town in the West Bank, caught fire after a tear gas grenade detonated during a Palestinian demonstration against land confiscation by Israel in 2016. Credit: יורם שורק via ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. As the SW. Monsoon in South Asia withdraws, the landslide season in ...

Geophysics is a powerful tool for understanding how our planet works. It enables us to connect complex real-world phenomena with fundamental physical laws, deduce the nature of otherwise inaccessible ...

The activation of cloud droplets on soluble particulate matter (cloud condensation nuclei) scavenges and grows the largest particles, to create a bimodal particulate distribution. The ...

Field testing and comparisons of different thermal imaging cameras were conducted during the Great Thermal Bake-off workshop in August 2024. In this image captured by one of the cameras, colors ...