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 ...

The Rubin Observatory sits at 2,647 meters (8,684 feet) above sea level at Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek ...

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 Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research includes entirely closing the center’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. Credit: C. Calvin, University ...

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 ...

Storm Agnes is seen over the Bay of Biscay offshore western Europe on 27 September 2023 in this image captured by the Flexible Combined Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite. Credit: ...

Global climate models are software behemoths, often containing more than a million lines of code. Inevitably, such complex models will contain mistakes, or “bugs.” But because model outputs are widely ...

Stemflow, or the flow of water along the surface of a plant’s stem, has been a subject of inquiry in forest hydrology since the latter half of the 1800s given its relevance to water balance studies.

Carter Newell of Pemaquid Mussel Farms handles oysters in the Damariscotta River in Maine. Maine’s shellfish industry may soon have to grapple with the effects of ocean acidification. Credit: ...

A new study tracked methane leaks from abandoned oil wells throughout Canada, like this one in Pioneer, Alberta. Credit: Jason Woodhead/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Canada is home to more than 400,000 ...

The surface waters of warm western boundary currents are poor in nutrients. Therefore, intrusions of these nutrient-depleted water into the region are considered to reduce biological production.