In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

Permafrost is considered a critical global component of the cryosphere given its climate-sensitive nature and its key geomorphological and ecosystem role. Permafrost is also affected by wildfires ...

On 11 March 2011, a tsunami struck the east coast of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant and precipitating the second largest series of nuclear meltdowns in history. The majority of the ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Switzerland, a dramatic rock slope failure is developing above ...

An automated hydrological logger (drip logger) sits on a stalagmite at Wombeyan Caves in New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Andy Baker Groundwater is one of Earth’s most important natural ...

The lava lake at the summit of Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia is one of just two on Earth (the other is at Kīlauea in Hawaii). Credit: Planet Labs Inc. Standing next to a lava lake at the summit of a ...

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 ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

On 24 November 1922, the Colorado River Commission officially allocated water rights to the seven U.S. states of the Colorado River Basin. The Colorado River Compact and subsequent agreements, ...

Two new studies investigate the possible origins of organic molecules detected in plumes erupting from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, pictured here in an artist’s impression. Enceladus’s ...

The traditional “pipeline” model of workforce development—whereby an individual follows a fairly linear, predictable, and structured path through K–12, undergraduate, and graduate education into ...

In carbon storage experiments tied to geothermal power plants in Iceland, 90% of injected carbon dioxide (CO 2) transformed into minerals in just 2 years. Standard carbon storage methods can take ...