Years ago, scientists noted something odd: Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres reflect nearly the same amount of sunlight back into space. The reason why this symmetry is odd is because the ...

The lower Matai'an landslide barrier lake prior to the failure on 21 October 2025. Still from a video posted to Youtube by CNA English News courtesy of the Hualien branch of the Forestry and Nature ...

In this model, mantle plumes (yellow) rise from big lower-mantle basal structures (nicknamed BLOBs, in red). Mantle plumes influence volcanic activity at the surface, and the current position of the ...

The 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model is the first iteration to include all 50 states. Credit: USGS Almost 15% of the U.S. population is “somewhat likely” to experience a damaging earthquake in the ...

The Trump administration announced today that the 1.5-million acre coastal plains in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will open for drilling. Here, caribou graze on the plain, with the Brooks Range ...

The rare earth element niobium was likely dragged to the surface as the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart more than 800 million years ago. Credit: Artem Topchiy/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 For much of ...

Climate subsystems, such as summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, can undergo abrupt shifts as temperatures rise. Credit: khail Varentsov, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 They then ...

Planet Labs image of the downstream impacts of the 28 April 2025 Glacial Outburst Flood (GLOF) / landslide at Vallunaraju in Peru. Image copyright Planet, used with permission. Image dated 30 April ...

The Alaska National Guard’s 176th Wing evacuated approximately 300 displaced western Alaska residents from Bethel, Alaska, following Typhoon Halong, 15, October. Credit: Senior Airman Joseph Moon, ...

Soil salinization refers to the excess accumulation of salt in soil to a level that affects crop production and ecosystem functioning. This poses serious threats to sustainable agriculture, soil ...

A new framework shows how much carbon plants allocate to their endosymbionts and how that amount might change in the face of warming soil and rising carbon dioxide levels.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., laid off 550 people, a roughly 11% reduction of its workforce.