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 ...

When oil wells, such as this one in Alberta, Canada, are abandoned and left unplugged they become “orphan wells,” that pose risks to nearby groundwater. Credit: Jason Woodhead, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This ...

The planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, several of which appear in this illustration, may all be tidally locked to their host star. Credit: European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser In the past 20 ...

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 ...

The figure shows results of different terrace formation models across countless combinations of parameters within the model. Through this sensitivity analyses and despite the potentially large ...

Improvements in subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting (S2S), which projects weather 2 weeks to 2 months in advance, could support more informed decisions about when to plant and irrigate crops, among ...

A map showing the distribution of fatal landslides in 2024. Author's own data, published under a CC license. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in ...

Scientists collected sediment cores from the Southern Ocean to gather evidence for the existence of a “salty blob” that sequestered carbon deep in the ocean during the last ice age. Credit: Ryan ...

Storm Agnes is seen over the Bay of Biscay offshore western Europe on 27 September 2023 in this image captured by the Flexible Combined Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite. Credit: ...

Rising temperatures may tip Earth systems into states of irreversible destabilization, scientists argue in a new paper. Credit: Eelco Böhtlingk/Unsplash Earth systems may be on the brink of long-term, ...

Soil cracks when it dries out, and these desiccation cracks can enhance the release of greenhouse gases. Credit: José Ignacio Pompé/Unsplash There’s perhaps no more universal image of drought than the ...

For decades, researchers have puzzled over why lightning seems sparser over the sea. New research suggests the difference may be a dash of salt. Over land and sea, lightning forms from the collisions ...