The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is a joint Brazilian-German research station with a 325-meter tower making environmental observations in the Amazon. Credit: Achim Edtbauer/MPI-C, CC BY-NC 4.0 The ...

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

Upper Jurassic (145- to 160-million-year-old) finely laminated organic carbon-rich shale interspersed with homogeneous, low-carbon mudrock of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in Kimmeridge Bay, England.

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 ...

Magma is a fundamental constituent of the Earth. Issues as diverse as volcanic hazard assessment and planetary evolution studies rely on knowledge of magma’s properties, origin, evolution, and ...

“Smart tanks” are increasingly used in rainwater harvesting systems to address water shortages and urban flooding. They can use a range of digital information (e.g. rainfall forecast) to make optimal ...

Solar climate intervention (SCI) methods, such as stratospheric aerosol deployments in aircraft plumes, are intended to modify the amount of sunlight that Earth absorbs and reflects. Credit: Jerry ...

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 ...

Many ecosystems on Earth are affected by pulses of activity: temperature swings between seasons, incoming and outgoing tides, the yearly advent of rainy periods. These variations can play an important ...

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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 ...

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: ...