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 ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this image of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in 2021. New experiments might help scientists identify exotic forms of ice present in ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The first documents damage along the line of the Teesta River, but ...

In satellite images, the Kuroshio Current looks like an artery; indeed, its characteristics support a large fishing industry in Japan, influence the local weather, and serve as a major carbon dioxide ...

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 ...

Researchers predict that if early 2024 policies hold, emissions related to coal’s extraction, transportation, and combustion will drop over the next 25 years.

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 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 ...

Ancient Assyria was an agrarian society whose agricultural output (honored in this bas-relief as a “tree of life” flanked by Assyrian deities) benefited from wet (megapluvial) periods and suffered ...

When the Cassini spacecraft first flew above the south pole of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, it did something no solar system explorer had done before: It took a shower. The craft zipped through plumes ...

Tectonicist Michael DeLucia stands in front of the Great Unconformity in the St. Francois Mountains, near Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest. The smooth rock in the photo is Precambrian rhyolite, ...

Lava piles from the ancient Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) are clearly visible in the peaks of the Atlas Mountains outside Midelt, Morocco. Credit: Andrea Marzoli A single pulse of activity ...