Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

The past year was a shock to the U.S. higher education system. The coming year may see even more jolts. Administration ...

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...

Coastal ocean dynamics regulate the heat and material budgets of highly productive and economically important regions of the world’s oceans. In-depth understanding of coastal processes has, for too ...

In 2020, Friends of Palm Beach, a nonprofit organization in Florida, began to see oil-covered debris wash ashore. Credit: Diane Buhler, Friends of Palm Beach In the summer of 2020, Friends of Palm ...

Field testing and comparisons of different thermal imaging cameras were conducted during the Great Thermal Bake-off workshop in August 2024. In this image captured by one of the cameras, colors ...

Global river datasets represent rivers that flow downstream in single paths that follow surface elevation, but they often miss branching river systems found in areas such as floodplains, canals, and ...

The ebb and flow of tectonic processes have driven biodiversity on Earth for the past 250 million years. Credit: Joan Li, Unsplash For the past 250 million years, species have diversified and died out ...

Great white egrets stand in the wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Land in this area of the Mississippi River Delta is sinking, both on its own and in tandem with rising sea levels. Credit: Elise Plunk ...

In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump worked across agencies to roll back practical and political momentum to address the climate crisis. Experts say the array of administration ...

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global temperatures of 2023. Global surface temperature anomalies since 1950, in ...

A collection of Commentaries published in the journals of the American Geophysical Union illuminate the deep and growing benefits of research in the Earth and space sciences for humanity. This image ...