The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for space science, renewable energy, ...

The current situation on the Birch Glacier at Blatten. Note the rockslide in the background, the huge volume of debris on the ice at the bottom of this slope, the ice of the glacier itself and the ...

Archaeological evidence uncovered at the Birds of Paradise wetlands complex in Belize indicates that the community there survived the Maya collapse thanks to sophisticated knowledge of wetland farming ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a remote sensing technique used to observe Earth’s surface and has applications in military operations, scientific research, agriculture, and more. Compared to in ...

The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of ...

There are thousands of mountains scattered across the seafloor, many of which are thousands of meters tall. These seamounts may have significant impacts on seismicity when the portion of the ocean ...

Rainfall can wash topsoil from farm fields, a process that more extreme rainfall events will accelerate. Credit: John/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Good topsoil does not accumulate quickly. Less than a tenth ...

Global climate models are software behemoths, often containing more than a million lines of code. Inevitably, such complex models will contain mistakes, or “bugs.” But because model outputs are widely ...

Since last May, climate change added an extra month of extreme heat for half the world’s population. Credit: James Day/Unsplash Sixty-seven extreme heat events have occurred since May 2024. All of ...

Asian megadeltas, including the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya, Mekong, and Red River deltas, are home to millions of people and are vital for regional food security. However, these ...

These images show where earthquakes happened during the Noto Peninsula swarm in Japan. Maps (a) and (c) use a standard existing method (GrowClust), while maps (b) and (d) show the results from the new ...

A new resource may help match artifacts with their original stone sources—“really a niche part of archaeology that requires geological expertise.” “Looking at the chemistry of the [stone artifacts] ...