The Sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field–carrying particles, or plasma, in all directions. This solar wind interacts with the magnetic fields and atmospheres of several of our solar ...

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 Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At about 2 pm local time on 13 February 2024, a large landslide ...

The palm leaf pages of Babad Lombok, written in Old Javanese, may provide clues about a little-known 1257 volcanic eruption in what is now Indonesia. Credit: Franck Lavigne Fire rained from the sky.

A postfire debris flow (PFDF) fan covers California State Route 70 and extends into the Feather River following the 2021 Dixie Fire. Credit: Don Lindsay/California Geological Survey, Public Domain On ...

Emperor penguins molt every summer, replacing all their feathers over the period of about a month. Credit: Peter Fretwell Peter Fretwell, a remote sensing scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, ...

A sign at Point Joe near Pacific Grove, Calif., warns of the risk from tsunamis. Credit: Adam Fagen/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The public has long been educated to respond to the threat of a tsunami by ...

A tagged loggerhead sea turtle paddles off the coast of Cape Cod after spending six months rehabilitating at the New England Aquarium in Boston. The turtle became stranded last winter when abnormally ...

Seventy-five years ago, on 18–19 September 1941, the Earth experienced a great magnetic storm, one of the most intense ever recorded. It arrived at a poignant moment in history, when radio and ...

Forest degradation, including the kind of logging pictured here on Pirititi Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon, can significantly affect energy, water, and carbon fluxes in forests. Credit: ...

Young vegetation greens the landscape near Mount St. Helens in this view from June 2017, 37 years after the volcano’s last major eruption. Credit: Jon Major, U.S. Geological Survey The fortieth ...

What do 1952, 1960, 1964, 2004, and 2011 have in common? In each of those years, a catastrophic subduction zone earthquake and tsunami—collectively the five largest earthquakes ever recorded—occurred ...