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

The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for space science, renewable energy, ...

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 ...

The current situation on the Birch Glacier at Blatten. Note the rockslide in the background, the huge volume of debris on the ice at the bottom of this slope, the ice of the glacier itself and the ...

There are thousands of mountains scattered across the seafloor, many of which are thousands of meters tall. These seamounts may have significant impacts on seismicity when the portion of the ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pliocene Bouse Formation in western Arizona contains the depositional records of former bodies of water. Reconstructing climate data from the Pliocene epoch could help scientists understand more ...

Global climate models are software behemoths, often containing more than a million lines of code. Inevitably, such complex models will contain mistakes, or “bugs.” But because model outputs are widely ...

Carbon mineralization is a promising solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, but we must learn to optimize the complex interplay between reactions and mechanics in fractures to develop a ...

Since last May, climate change added an extra month of extreme heat for half the world’s population. Credit: James Day/Unsplash Sixty-seven extreme heat events have occurred since May 2024. All of ...

These images show where earthquakes happened during the Noto Peninsula swarm in Japan. Maps (a) and (c) use a standard existing method (GrowClust), while maps (b) and (d) show the results from the new ...