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 ...

The Paris Agreement, which went into effect in 2016, was celebrated as the most ambitious climate change agreement in history. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United ...

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Northern ecosystems are changing rapidly as permafrost thaws, glaciers retreat, and precipitation patterns change. As a result, the rhythms of river flow are shifting, too, according to a new analysis ...

Coccolithophores build armored shells out of calcium carbonate, influencing ocean chemistry in the process. Credit: Courtesy Dr. Alison Taylor; Mejia, 2011, https ...

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 ...

We live at a unique moment in Earth’s climatic history. Our planet has been both hotter and colder in the past, flipping between periods when it was swathed in ice and when temperatures soared far ...

McDougall and Argall now report observations of a switchback-shaped structure in Earth’s magnetic field, suggesting that switchbacks can also form near planets. The researchers discovered the ...

An algal bloom in the Gulf of Alaska in April 2017. Credit: NASA/Goddard/NPP, CC BY 2.0 Smelting metals and burning coal vaporize small amounts of iron. Some of this iron wafts out of East Asia and ...

Shasta Dam in Northern California’s Sacramento Valley produces an average of nearly 2,000 gigawatt-hours of hydroelectric power each year. Credit: Jeff Blankenship ...

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 ...

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 ...