Scientists use email daily to communicate with colleagues and others, typically with the expectation that their messages won’t be seen by prying eyes. By now, we’re all familiar with and on guard ...

Aurorae such as the southern lights, seen here over Antarctica, show the geomagnetic field in action. Some areas of the field, which shields Earth’s surface from charged solar particles, are stronger ...

A new study warns that day zero droughts—when reservoirs fail to supply taps—could become common within this decade.

Natural and engineered nature-based structures offer promise for storm-related disaster risk reduction and flood mitigation, as long as researchers can adequately monitor and study them. Protecting ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew through Enceladus’s jets during its long mission in the Saturn system. This Cassini image is from 17 February 2005. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute In 2008, ...

A “ghost forest” off the coast of Oregon is all that’s left of trees believed to have died during the last Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. Credit: iStock ...

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite reveals an impressively dynamic picture of the Earth’s carbon cycle, yet it may be prematurely decommissioned and destroyed due to budget cuts. In ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. I have now collated my initial dataset for fatal landslides that ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. According to Wikipedia, Pikillaqta is a large archaeological site ...

Example time slices of geomagnetic field intensity at Earth’s surface over the past 100 thousand years (ka) from the global GGF100k model show the field variability. This includes structures ...

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