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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a remote sensing technique used to observe Earth’s surface and has applications in military operations, scientific research, agriculture, and more. Compared to in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A postfire debris flow (PFDF) fan covers California State Route 70 and extends into the Feather River following the 2021 Dixie Fire. Credit: Don Lindsay/California Geological Survey, Public Domain On ...

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 ...

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.

Since last May, climate change added an extra month of extreme heat for half the world’s population. Credit: James Day/Unsplash Sixty-seven extreme heat events have occurred since May 2024. All of ...

Seventy-five years ago, on 18–19 September 1941, the Earth experienced a great magnetic storm, one of the most intense ever recorded. It arrived at a poignant moment in history, when radio and ...

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 ...