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 ...

Alfvén waves are fundamental to the dynamics of space plasmas. New space missions, sophisticated rocket campaigns, and advances in radar networks and computer modeling have grown our understanding of ...

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.

As the climate warms, the atmosphere is getting thirstier. Scientists define this atmospheric thirst, or evaporative demand, as the amount of water that could potentially evaporate from Earth’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...

Simulated image showing gigantic streams of helium escaping from the atmosphere of planet HAT-P-32b as it orbits its host star. Credit: M. MacLeod (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and A.