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 ...
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 ...
This conceptual illustration shows the contrasting responses of a low-latitude highlands ecosystem in China to a drought versus a heat wave. The image at left depicts the severe ecosystem collapse and ...
A new analysis maps increasing incidents of wildfire on the edges of Terra Indígena do Vale do Javari, an Indigenous territory in western Brazil. Credit: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND ...
Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...
The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research includes entirely closing the center’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. Credit: C. Calvin, University ...
Lunar Crater in Nevada and the volcanic field that surrounds it came about via intraplate volcanism. Credit: Ken Lund/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 The distribution of water in the MTZ, both today and in the ...
An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...
Landslides on the southern side of Lake Takengon in Sumatra triggered by the November 2025 rains. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 30 November 2025. The Landslide Blog ...
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At about 8 pm on 13 June 2024, a failure occurred in the embankment ...
Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. In 2001, Clark ...
Pilots prepare to fly microbial sampling systems into smoke from high-intensity crown fires in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. Credit: Krista Bonfantine, University of Idaho Extreme wildfire events ...
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