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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A research team could get models of Earth’s magnetic fields (left) to match real-world observations (right) only when they included the mantle’s BLOBS in simulations run on the ARCHER2 supercomputer.

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 the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump worked across agencies to roll back practical and political momentum to address the climate crisis. Experts say the array of administration ...

Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice age. A pair of modeling studies examines how such a collapse could affect dissolved ...

Snowpacks in places such as this windswept alpine pass in the Front Range of Colorado are difficult to characterize with current remote sensing methods because of cloud cover, complex topography, and ...

In May 2023, a group of scientists gathered in Agros, Cyrpus, for an AGU Chapman Conference, “Hydrothermal Circulation and Seawater Chemistry: What’s the Chicken and What’s the Egg?” They discussed ...

Clouds on Venus race across the sky at speeds of more than 100 meters per second, driven by incompletely understood atmospheric dynamics. Credit: Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 Imagine the catastrophic ...