A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to more ...

The geographical distribution of fatal landslides in January 2025. Author's own data, published under a CC licence. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world ...

Feather fossils are rarely found in three dimensions and are even more rarely found in mineralized form. Credit: Edoardo Terranova Valentina Rossi first saw the 30,000-year-old griffon vulture as a ...

Stable auroral red (SAR) arcs and strong thermal emission velocity enhancement (STEVE) phenomena are optical structures that have been detected in the subauroral upper atmosphere. Whereas aurorae are ...

Natural and engineered nature-based structures offer promise for storm-related disaster risk reduction and flood mitigation, as long as researchers can adequately monitor and study them. Protecting ...

Rainfall can wash topsoil from farm fields, a process that more extreme rainfall events will accelerate. Credit: John/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Good topsoil does not accumulate quickly. Less than a tenth ...

With wildfires growing more frequent and more intense in many parts of the world, scientists are looking to the past to better understand where and when fires have burned. Lakes and wetlands, which ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The first documents damage along the line of the Teesta River, but ...

A large landslide has destroyed a 662 m long highway viaduct in China. Over the last two days there has been considerable media coverage of a large, highly destructive rockslide that occurred at ...

Coastal systems such as wetlands, coral reefs, and barrier islands have the potential to keep pace with sea-level rise, provided sufficient space and amounts of sediments and ecosystems are available.

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 ...