Crowds gathered today at rallies, such as this one in Boston, Mass., to “Stand Up for Science” after a tumultuous year in science policy. Credit: Grace van Deelen/AGU Thousands of rally-goers in 33 ...

Soil salinization refers to the excess accumulation of salt in soil to a level that affects crop production and ecosystem functioning. This poses serious threats to sustainable agriculture, soil ...

The Dragonfly probe flies over sand dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan in this artist’s impression. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Strange things are afoot on Saturn’s largest moon. Alone ...

Alfvén waves are fundamental to the dynamics of space plasmas. New space missions, sophisticated rocket campaigns, and advances in radar networks and computer modeling have grown our understanding of ...

Time is of the essence in tropical cyclone prediction: The more warning time a community has, the better prepared its members will be when a storm makes landfall. Currently, the path and nature of ...

Using a new technique to analyze old synthetic aperture radar data, researchers observed direct evidence of a Venusian lava tube about 300 meters tall and 1 kilometer in diameter. Here an artist’s ...

Satellite image of the Rubaya mining site in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 24 February 2026. There are disputed reports of another ...

For decades, scientists have debated how earthquakes can occur in the hot, dense mantle beneath continents. Most earthquakes happen in Earth’s brittle upper crust, where rocks snap under pressure. But ...

In recent years, the international community has made progress in slowing increases in the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and in acknowledging the scale of methane leaks from oil and gas facilities.

Magma is on the move beneath Yellowstone National Park’s Upper Geyser Basin in Wyoming and throughout the caldera but is unlikely to contribute to an eruption. Credit: Jim Peaco/NPS Magma deep beneath ...

Though 77% of Antarctica's coastline remains stable, the unstable portions have lost large amounts of ice over the past three decades. Credit: NASA/GSFC, Public Domain Research & Developments is a ...

Greenland’s natural resources—critical minerals and clean energy potential, in particular—have evolved into a cornerstone for renewable energy transitions and sustainability efforts elsewhere in the ...