The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. As the devastation caused by the catastrophic flooding in the port ...

Modern society relies on electric currents. We can generate them, guide them from one place to another (including very remote places), and make them work for us. The use of electricity has provided ...

A “very large roll” of a radar instrument offers new insight into a highly reflective area near the Martian south pole.

Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East Asia, the massive Tibetan Plateau is often considered to be Earth’s “Third Pole.” A land of large glaciers, permafrost, and heavy snow, the ...

Livestock like these Raya cattle represent a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Africa. Credit: Kelley Lynch/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 The population of Africa, the second-largest continent in ...

Members of the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments–Arctic (NGEE Arctic) unmanned aerial laser altimeter team (Christian Andresen, Lauren Charsley-Groffman, Adam Collins, and Erika Swanson) take a ...

Alfvén waves are fundamental to the dynamics of space plasmas. New space missions, sophisticated rocket campaigns, and advances in radar networks and computer modeling have grown our understanding of ...

The way climate change affects thermodynamic signals, such as atmospheric temperatures, is relatively well understood. Its effects on atmospheric circulation, however, are more complex because the ...

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 ...

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A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...

A fossil of an ichthyosaur, one of the free-swimming predators that emerged in the aftermath of the mass extinction at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic, roughly 252 million years ago. The ...