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

During wildfires that blazed in Oregon and Washington in 2022, large plumes of smoke blew across the landscape and over the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory The wrong kind of weather can ...

The inconsistent ways in which vast amounts of scientific data are stored make their discovery, linking and reuse difficult for researchers. The “Enabling FAIR Data” project will develop a set of data ...

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 ...

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 ...

View of Hüfifirn, a medium-sized glacier in Central Switzerland with the peak of Schärhorn (3,296 meters above sea level) in the background (photo taken in August 2021). Mountains store much of the ...

Permafrost across the Arctic is degrading, causing erosion as well as changes to microbial communities. Credit: Benjamin Jones/USGS/Flickr, Public Domain In the Arctic, a major variable for future ...

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 ...

Air pollution from Australian megafires, like the one pictured here in January 2020, can have many negative health impacts. Credit: robdownunder, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 From October 2019 to February 2020, ...

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 ...

A satellite image of an atmospheric river over the northeastern Pacific on 20 February 2017, which helped California and the American West emerge from a 5-year drought. Atmospheric rivers—relatively ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. There is a no scientific doubt that human activity is driving rapid ...