More than 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers are still searching for new ways to tackle disastrous ...

Like many young waitresses in Los Angeles, Wendy Bohon once dreamed of an acting career—that is, until the 1999 magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake shook up her plans (and her fourth-floor apartment) ...

For decades, scientists have debated how earthquakes can occur in the hot, dense mantle beneath continents. Most earthquakes happen in Earth’s brittle upper crust, where rocks snap under pressure. But ...

Snowpacks in places such as this windswept alpine pass in the Front Range of Colorado are difficult to characterize with current remote sensing methods because of cloud cover, complex topography, and ...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, global sea level has risen by about 20 centimeters (roughly 8 inches) [Fox-Kemper et al., 2021]. As a result, coastal and island communities around the world ...

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 Amazon saw its worst wildfire season in decades in 2024. New research examines the consequences. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA Wildfires in the rainy, humid Amazon might once have seemed unlikely, but ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. AFP has posted a very good overview of the hazards posed by ...

Fair peer review is a necessity for research across all scientific disciplines. Thousands of experts volunteer their time each year to advance scientific understanding and provide feedback to their ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can improve flood predictions—but human expertise still matters for accurate warnings, new research says.

Landslides like this one in the foothills of Mount Elgon in 2019 have wracked Uganda in recent years. Credit: Hope Mafaranga Uganda is known as the “Pearl of Africa” because of its stunning natural ...

Seventy-five years ago, on 18–19 September 1941, the Earth experienced a great magnetic storm, one of the most intense ever recorded. It arrived at a poignant moment in history, when radio and ...