The past year was a shock to the U.S. higher education system. The coming year may see even more jolts. Administration ...

Fishermen ply their trade in the Gulf of Mannar in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka, one example of the vital importance of oceans to planet Earth and humankind. Measurements of ocean heating and sea ...

Mars may once have hosted a large ocean covering much of its northern hemisphere. Credit: Robert Citron From alluvial fans to lake beds, Mars has no shortage of surface features that were clearly ...

In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump worked across agencies to roll back practical and political momentum to address the climate crisis. Experts say the array of administration ...

A schematic of the Pi Cloud Chamber. Scientists created a “cloud-in-a-box,” where warm, humid air from the heated bottom wall meets cooler, humid air from the cold top wall, generating supersaturation ...

Since last May, climate change added an extra month of extreme heat for half the world’s population. Credit: James Day/Unsplash Sixty-seven extreme heat events have occurred since May 2024. All of ...

Beneath the surface of the Brisbane Water estuary in New South Wales, Australia, rays are moving more than 57 metric tons of sediment each day as they forage and hunt for food. That’s according to a ...

In the Arctic, landslide-like features known as mega retrogressive thaw slumps are threatening infrastructure, altering regional biogeochemistry, and emitting carbon. Sometimes eroding more than 1 ...

A collection of Commentaries published in the journals of the American Geophysical Union illuminate the deep and growing benefits of research in the Earth and space sciences for humanity. This image ...

A Navy construction mechanic fastens protective piping around submarine cables off the coast of Hawaii. Credit: U.S. Navy combat camera photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Charles E.

OSIRIS-REx’s Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism collected more than 120 grams of regolith from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold, Public Domain Regolith ...