Artificial intelligence models have improved weather forecasting, but their inner workings are largely opaque. A new approach ...

The federal government shut down just after midnight on 1 October. Credit: Beth Bagley/AGU Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law ...

Good digital data is now being published that presents the scale of landscape change that occurred as a result of the Matai’an landslide hazard cascade. There is also interesting information about the ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

The Flint, Mich., water crisis began when state-appointed emergency managers switched the city’s drinking water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River in April 2014. Credit: State of ...

An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...

This composite image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 was taken in infrared light, showing the shells of hydrogen gas it ejected. A newly identified star in a distant galaxy shed its hydrogen, helium, carbon ...

The ebb and flow of tectonic processes have driven biodiversity on Earth for the past 250 million years. Credit: Joan Li, Unsplash For the past 250 million years, species have diversified and died out ...

Researchers used paleoclimate data, modeling, and measurements of sea surface temperature to learn more about future climate. They used the Western Pacific Warm Pool, seen here in 2016, as a reference ...

An unprecedented global assessment examines climate, economic, and governance threats to mountain systems and the benefits they provide, suggesting pathways toward sustainability. The project began ...

A recent study analyzed currents, salinity, temperature, and more in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. Credit: NOAA NMFS SWFSC Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program, CC BY 2.0 Every year ...

The Konza Prairie Biological Station in Kansas has changed over the past 30 years. Woody vegetation now grows where grasses once thrived. Credit: Walter Dodds Read more Walter Dodds has watched the ...