Telecom fiber repurposed as distributed acoustic sensing arrays can image near-surface structure and potentially improve seismic hazard mapping in urban areas. How much the ground moves during an ...

Climate subsystems, such as summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, can undergo abrupt shifts as temperatures rise. Credit: khail Varentsov, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 They then ...

Early life may have branched out when Earth’s magnetic field was at a low. Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester For more than a billion years after first emerging, life on Earth was stuck ...

The activation of cloud droplets on soluble particulate matter (cloud condensation nuclei) scavenges and grows the largest particles, to create a bimodal particulate distribution. The ...

Women and gender minorities, especially in lower-income countries, generally bear a greater burden than men do with regard to the impacts of climate change. For example, women are more often ...

Dymer Creek (foreground) flows into the Chesapeake Bay near the town of White Stone, Va. The pH of coastal waterways such as the Chesapeake is influenced by both the acidification of the ocean and the ...

Update 26 January 2024: SLIM landed roughly 55 meters east of the target landing site, meeting its precision landing goal. Its power died at 2:57 a.m. JST (12:57 p.m. EST) on 20 January after taking a ...

Geophysics is a powerful tool for understanding how our planet works. It enables us to connect complex real-world phenomena with fundamental physical laws, deduce the nature of otherwise inaccessible ...

Sea-level rise (SLR) increasingly threatens coastal communities around the world. However, not all locations are equally threatened, and realistic estimation of hazard is difficult. Understanding SLR ...

An algal bloom in the Gulf of Alaska in April 2017. Credit: NASA/Goddard/NPP, CC BY 2.0 Smelting metals and burning coal vaporize small amounts of iron. Some of this iron wafts out of East Asia and ...

Mars’s Jezero crater contains channels and other water-sculpted features like deltas. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL Mars is a frigid world today, and all of ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Of course, allow me to start by wishing all my readers a Happy 2026.