During the Apollo missions to the Moon, astronauts encountered an unexpected hazard: lunar dust. It clung to their spacesuits; crept into the lunar landers; and caused irritated throats, coughing fits ...

The aftermath of one of the landslides triggered by the 23 - 24 February 2026 rainfall event in Juiz da Fora, Brazil. Still from a video captured by Viory and posted to Youtube by Poder360. Heavy ...

Frontline communities are commonly described as groups most affected by environmental and social challenges. Marston et al. [2025] offer a broader definition based on the experiences of ...

An airborne survey helicopter prepares to collect radiometric and magnetic data over Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in 2022. The blue-and-white box in the back of the cabin contains the ...

Dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12) emissions are regulated by the Montreal Protocol, but observations indicate that there are more emissions than are accounted for by international inventories.

Dymer Creek (foreground) flows into the Chesapeake Bay near the town of White Stone, Va. The pH of coastal waterways such as the Chesapeake is influenced by both the acidification of the ocean and the ...

Climate change’s impacts on mangroves were incorporated into a new calculation of the social cost of carbon, a measure of the monetary damages climate change is causing. Credit: Kristin Hoel, Unsplash ...

The EarthArXiv preprint archive, in operation for almost a year and a half, makes the latest Earth science research available to a wider community. Leonardo DiCaprio (right) and Earth scientist Piers ...

Sediment cores collected by instruments such as this one on the back of R/V Neil Armstrong shed light on how the North Atlantic Ocean of the last ice age circulated. Credit: Alice Carter-Champion A ...

Combining direct measurements with artificial intelligence methods, a new map estimates groundwater depth across the contiguous United States at a resolution of ...

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 ...

Geographic information system (GIS) maps help researchers, policymakers, and community members see how environmental risks are spread throughout a given region. These types of interactive, layered ...