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

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 ...

This satellite image of a pumice raft floating near the Kingdom of Tonga gave scientists a clue that an underwater volcano had erupted in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth ...

At left, Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (KHIs) disturbed by background atmospheric gravity waves at about 90 kilometers altitude over Chile are seen in this image captured on 1 March 2016 by an ...

When earth, rocks, and debris on a slope give way, the resulting landslide can obliterate everything in its runout path. Landslides, like many geological disasters, are difficult to predict, but ...

Get the most fascinating science news stories of the week in your inbox every Friday. To quantify changes in suicide incidence in the continental United States, Belova et al. created an integrated ...

A new community effort shows that Earth has lost 5% of its global glacier mass since 2000. The work highlights the necessity of spaceborne glacier observations and upcoming gaps in long-term ...

During the last ice age, massive icebergs periodically bobbed in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: USGS Just a few tens of thousands of years ago—a blink in geologic time—ice sheets covered a wide swath of ...

As glaciers recede, slopes covered with a mixture or rock and ice are increasingly exposed in cold, high mountain areas. Rock-ice avalanches are a major hazard, as they can travel much farther than ...

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 ...

Fire is part of the natural ecology of most vegetated settings, but wildland fire is also a major—and increasing—hazard in many populated regions of the world, to which recent severe fires in ...

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, in June 1991 was one of the most powerful of the 20th century. Credit: Dave Harlow, USGS Volcanic eruptions can have a massive effect on Earth’s climate.