The summer monsoon delivers rain to the rolling hills near Jawhar, a town near the western coast of India. Last January, scientists gathered to discuss the many interacting factors that have driven ...

Scientists use data visualization to quantify, interpret, evaluate, and communicate information. Recent research into the ways that people see and interpret colors is improving tools to convey visual ...

A crowd beats the heat with spray from a fire hydrant in Seattle. A new method for measuring urban heat exposure shows that more densely populated neighborhoods may face higher heat and longer hot ...

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 ...

An artist’s concept depicts what the Earth-analogue planet might look like, with the white dwarf star in the background. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Earth’s future is bleak. At best, ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Denmark , there is a substantial scandal rumbling on around a ...

The presence and concentration of methane (CH 4) in the martian atmosphere is of paramount importance to planetary scientists and exobiologists because it could be the signal of present or past ...

Heavy rain will likely be a more common occurrence on a warming planet. Credit: Santosh Kumar, CC BY 2.0 The simplest thermodynamic equations make it clear that warmer air can hold more moisture than ...

The Waitepuru Stream flows from its headwaters in the Mokaingarara Hills, down to the Rangitaiki Plains, and through the tiny community of Matatā as it makes its way to New Zealand’s wide Bay of ...

Plate tectonics just turned 50. The theory of how our planet’s lithosphere—its outer layer—changes shape and evolves is probably one of the most important scientific advancements of all time. Before ...

In 1872, the British Challenger expedition sailed around the globe on a voyage to study and sample the world’s oceans. The expedition is thought to be the first scientific oceanographic cruise. Of the ...

If water is the key to life, then oxygen is the key to animal life. All animals breathe oxygen. Despite decades of research, however, scientists still don’t know when Earth’s atmosphere held enough ...