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

The Sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field–carrying particles, or plasma, in all directions. This solar wind interacts with the magnetic fields and atmospheres of several of our solar ...

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 ...

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, ...

Quantum diamond microscopes like this one are used to map magnetic fields at the submillimeter to submicrometer scale. Credit: Ualisson Bellon This newsletter rocks. Get the most fascinating science ...

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 ...

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.

Post based on material kindly provided by Professor Douglas H. Clark of the Geology Department at Western Washington University. Many thanks to Doug for providing this information. On 19 March 2026, a ...

In groundwater flow and transport modeling, aquifer characterization is still a hot topic. Ultimately, it means giving each grid cell in a numerical model hydraulic property values. This is a daunting ...

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 ...

A tagged loggerhead sea turtle paddles off the coast of Cape Cod after spending six months rehabilitating at the New England Aquarium in Boston. The turtle became stranded last winter when abnormally ...

Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C over 100,000 or more years. Between 3,000 and 20,000 petagrams of carbon were ...