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 ...

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 ...

A massive gully has been developing over the last two decades at Pondok Balik. It now covers an area of over 3 hectares. In Indonesia, a massive and rapidly developing gully is causing considerable ...

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 ...

The figure shows results of different terrace formation models across countless combinations of parameters within the model. Through this sensitivity analyses and despite the potentially large ...

A team of medical professionals monitored the vital statistics of each buried participant during a new study of an avalanche safety device. Credit: Maurizio Gretter/Eurac Research A new medical study ...

The change was caused by thirsty vegetation taking up less carbon than normal, not by the year’s extended fire season, new research shows.

Global detections of oxychlorine salts reveal a complex, 4-billion-year chemical cycle on Mars. They can act as de-icing agents, oxidants, a hazard and a vital resource for future human exploration.

Scientists collected sediment cores from the Southern Ocean to gather evidence for the existence of a “salty blob” that sequestered carbon deep in the ocean during the last ice age. Credit: Ryan ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today. Students who have applied for ...

Rising temperatures may tip Earth systems into states of irreversible destabilization, scientists argue in a new paper. Credit: Eelco Böhtlingk/Unsplash Earth systems may be on the brink of long-term, ...

At a natural underwater laboratory off the coast of Papua New Guinea, researchers examined what happens to a diverse reef ecosystem as it experiences gradually increasing levels of ocean acidification ...