Mid-ocean ridges, like this one near Vancouver Island, Canada, reveal plate boundaries. Credit: Ocean Networks Canada Tectonic plates blanket the Earth like a patchwork quilt. Now, researchers think ...

Livestock like these Raya cattle represent a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Africa. Credit: Kelley Lynch/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 The population of Africa, the second-largest continent in ...

Clouds on Venus race across the sky at speeds of more than 100 meters per second, driven by incompletely understood atmospheric dynamics. Credit: Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 Imagine the catastrophic ...

Feather fossils are rarely found in three dimensions and are even more rarely found in mineralized form. Credit: Edoardo Terranova Valentina Rossi first saw the 30,000-year-old griffon vulture as a ...

In August 2023, 14,000 cubic meters of sandstone and shale detached from a slope in the French Alps. This rockslide at La Praz closed a road and a major railway between France and Italy at least until ...

When fires in Quebec blanketed much of the eastern United States and Canada with thick smoke in June 2023, many of us wondered: what’s causing these wildfires? While lightning strikes ignite half of ...

During wildfires that blazed in Oregon and Washington in 2022, large plumes of smoke blew across the landscape and over the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory The wrong kind of weather can ...

Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East Asia, the massive Tibetan Plateau is often considered to be Earth’s “Third Pole.” A land of large glaciers, permafrost, and heavy snow, the ...

Warm water flowing into fjords and beneath ice shelves will continue to be a prime cause of glacial melting as global temperatures rise. This melting will, in turn, contribute to sea level rise and ...

Permafrost across the Arctic is degrading, causing erosion as well as changes to microbial communities. Credit: Benjamin Jones/USGS/Flickr, Public Domain In the Arctic, a major variable for future ...

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 ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. There is a no scientific doubt that human activity is driving rapid ...