Coccolithophores build armored shells out of calcium carbonate, influencing ocean chemistry in the process. Credit: Courtesy Dr. Alison Taylor; Mejia, 2011, https ...

The ground beneath our feet is exhaling. Steadily and without pause, through a process called soil respiration, plant roots and microbes release carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the atmosphere. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A large landslide has destroyed a 662 m long highway viaduct in China. Over the last two days there has been considerable media coverage of a large, highly destructive rockslide that occurred at ...

In 2014, a Lake Erie algal bloom sent a cloud of toxins into Toledo, Ohio’s water supply, forcing the city to shut down water service to 400,000 residents. Like many lakes in agricultural areas, Lake ...