Sea level rise threatens to flood thousands of industrial sites containing hazardous materials, according to a new study. Credit: Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema Research & Developments is a blog for brief ...
The flow of the Earth’s mantle creates tectonic stresses beneath the lithosphere, the Earth’s rigid outer shell. The stress inside the lithosphere causes its shattering, forming fault-and-fracture ...
Tunnels of cold water from Antarctica may have driven a chill in the Western Pacific Warm Pool 1.5 million years ago. Credit: NOAA About 1.5 million years ago, the mid-depth waters of the tropical ...
A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to more ...
The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...
Two new studies investigate the possible origins of organic molecules detected in plumes erupting from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, pictured here in an artist’s impression. Enceladus’s ...
The federal government shut down just after midnight on 1 October. Credit: Beth Bagley/AGU Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law ...
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 ...
The figure depicts the hierarchy of different types of Earth System climate models. These vary in complexity (increasing from bottom to top) and in the kinds of compromises sacrificed to computation.
A recent impact in the Moon’s enormous Keeler Crater is illustrated here using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The impact hit the crater’s central peak, and debris formed enigmatic ...
As the global climate continues to warm, fire seasons have intensified, and large-scale wildfires have become more frequent in many parts of the world. Factors such as vegetation type, land use ...
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