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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Major tectonic features within the North American midcontinent. The red and purple stars mark the locations of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, with igneous intrusions at around 270 million ...

At a markup meeting this morning, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation passed the Weather Act, a bipartisan legislation package designed to improve NOAA’s forecasting ...

An occupied vehicle was crushed, but the person in the car escaped unhurt. On 1 March 2026, a very dramatic rockfall occurred in Fjæra in Etne in Vestland county, Norway. The rockfall, which ...

Climate change’s impacts on mangroves were incorporated into a new calculation of the social cost of carbon, a measure of the monetary damages climate change is causing. Credit: Kristin Hoel, Unsplash ...

Sediment cores collected by instruments such as this one on the back of R/V Neil Armstrong shed light on how the North Atlantic Ocean of the last ice age circulated. Credit: Alice Carter-Champion A ...

Coastal landscapes evolve under the combined influence of wave action, climatic variations, sea‑level change, and tectonic processes. Shoreline evolution is especially important along rocky coasts ...

A massive gully has been developing over the last two decades at Pondok Balik. It now covers an area of over 3 hectares. In Indonesia, a massive and rapidly developing gully is causing considerable ...