Tree branches, tree trunks, mud, and building materials were deposited by a debris flow after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in Colorado. Credit: USGS/Jason Kean, Public Domain Months after wildfires ...
More than 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers are still searching for new ways to tackle disastrous ...
New evidence from the Natural Hazards Commission – Toka Tū Ake (NHC) shows that landslides are now New Zealand's most costly ...
A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples found that largely unmonitored industrial compounds are widespread ...
Between 2000 and 2020, 42% of tree lines around the world crept upward, largely because of climate change. But 25% moved ...
Northstar Island, an artificial island in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, is home to an oil well that produces approximately 10,000 barrels of oil per day. Credit: U.S. Department of the ...
An archive of pilot whale tissue collected around the Faroe Islands has provided scientists with a decades-long record of how different per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulate in remote ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north to south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere in August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (turquoise circles). A background map from the ...
Researchers extracted a 9.5-meter ice core from the Weißseespitze glacier in the Ötztal Alps in 2019 and analyzed it to learn about the history of Earth’s climate. But the glacier, seen here in 2023, ...
The Cerrado savanna in Brazil is the second-largest biome in South America and stores as much carbon as 20% of the Amazon rainforest, according to new research. Credit: Andre Dib The Cerrado savanna ...
Geothermal activity near Hveragerði, Iceland, has created a natural laboratory where researchers can study how ecosystems, including microbes and plans, respond to long-term warming. Credit: Sara ...