A new partnership between researchers and community members created a comprehensive network of weather stations across ...

Planet Labs satellite image of the aftermath of the heap leach landslide at the Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon. Image copyright Planet Labs used with permission. Image dated 24 June 2024. The Landslide ...

The impact of geomagnetic storms, which can disrupt satellites, GPS, and power grids, is shown to depend on their onset timing. Solar eruptions can trigger geomagnetic storms that disrupt satellites, ...

Emperor penguins molt every summer, replacing all their feathers over the period of about a month. Credit: Peter Fretwell Peter Fretwell, a remote sensing scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, ...

Ten years have passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished after departing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with 239 people aboard. Military and scientific personnel spent months combing unexplored ...

The palm leaf pages of Babad Lombok, written in Old Javanese, may provide clues about a little-known 1257 volcanic eruption in what is now Indonesia. Credit: Franck Lavigne Fire rained from the sky.

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 ...

Scientific progress rarely follows a straight path. Instead, it develops through open discussion, critical evaluation, and the testing of new ideas. The exchange between authors and colleagues ...

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 ...

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 ...

The relationship between the land use - land cover change rate and the density of fatal landslides for mountain areas around the world. Figure from Fidan et al. (2026), published under a Creative ...

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 ...