In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Switzerland, a dramatic rock slope failure is developing above ...

A new community science project brings together the Cowichan Tribes, the provincial government of British Columbia, and scientists to study the Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo' (Koksilah River). Credit: David ...

Model of solar inertial modes: slow-moving sound waves in the Sun’s outermost layers, which might hold the solution for why the Sun’s equator spins faster than the poles. Credit: MPS/Yuto Bekki The ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

Climate change is causing trees in the boreal forest to grow faster. But is it enough to offset carbon emissions from forest disturbances? Credit: Jakub Fryš, CC BY SA 4.0 In the world’s cold northern ...

A new community effort shows that Earth has lost 5% of its global glacier mass since 2000. The work highlights the necessity of spaceborne glacier observations and upcoming gaps in long-term ...

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 Atlantic has seen significant decreases in cloud cover recently. Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center In a string of ever-hotter years, 2023 stood out: It was ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus almost 50 years ago, it discovered a magnetic mystery. Unlike on most planets, the ice giant’s magnetic field is tilted roughly 60° away from its spin axis ...

A map of India showing how ambient heat exposure varies by location. The colors represent the 85th percentile of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) distribution (1979-2021). WBGT accounts for air ...

As glaciers recede, slopes covered with a mixture or rock and ice are increasingly exposed in cold, high mountain areas. Rock-ice avalanches are a major hazard, as they can travel much farther than ...