A new study connects satellite data on vegetation condition, topography, and weather conditions to examine the predicted ...

Bans on older versions of “forever chemicals” seem to be working. But emerging variants behave in ways that scientists are ...

Get the most fascinating science news stories of the week in your inbox every Friday. Since discovering that PFAS might be harmful to human and environmental health, researchers and industries have ...

Climate records stored in marine sediments reveal different ice sheet and ocean responses to falling atmospheric CO 2 concentrations from the warm Pliocene to the ice ages of the Pleistocene. As ...

Parts of the Atacama Desert receive fewer than 5 millimeters of rainfall a year. Credit: Wescottm, CC BY 4.0 In the enduring dryness of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile where the average rainfall ...

Planet Labs image of the aftermath of the Chambishi TSF failure. Image copyright Planet, captured on 23 February 2025, used with permission. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely ...

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 ...

Geothermal activity near Hveragerði, Iceland, has created a natural laboratory where researchers can study how ecosystems, including microbes and plans, respond to long-term warming. Credit: Sara ...

Earth’s ionosphere becomes visible as faint bands of red and green glow in this long-exposure photograph taken from the International Space Station at night. The International Reference Ionosphere ...

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. The Trump Administration has ...

Magma is on the move beneath Yellowstone National Park’s Upper Geyser Basin in Wyoming and throughout the caldera but is unlikely to contribute to an eruption. Credit: Jim Peaco/NPS Magma deep beneath ...

Erupting from the vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are some of the most isolated landmasses on the planet. Communities and ecosystems there depend on a reliable climate ...