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 Ganymede’s interior and brought to the ...

A crowd beats the heat with spray from a fire hydrant in Seattle. A new method for measuring urban heat exposure shows that more densely populated neighborhoods may face higher heat and longer hot ...

Carbon mineralization is a promising solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, but we must learn to optimize the complex interplay between reactions and mechanics in fractures to develop a ...

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, ...

Before Earth became the Blue Planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching down hundreds or perhaps even thousands of kilometers. As early Earth’s magma ...

Credit: Arizona Department of Transportation/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Wind erosion and dust may be invisible hazards, but in the United States, they have an eye-popping $154 billion annual price tag, ...

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 ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 20 August 2024, a landslide occurred on the banks of the Teesta ...

A satellite image of the Juruena River shows areas of deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Dark green areas are intact tropical forest, light green areas are cattle farms, and yellow or brown areas ...

A number of sinkholes, as well as the underground voids that cause them, are clearly visible along the walls of this Florida quarry. Credit: Daniel Doctor Sinkholes are significant, costly hazards to ...

High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...

A map showing the distribution of fatal landslides in 2024. Author's own data, published under a CC license. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in ...