Like heat waves, these periods of high atmospheric demand for water can damage crops and ecosystems and increase pressure on ...

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center that thins in both along-ridge directions.

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

A team of dozens spent weeks in the Rwenzori Mountains capturing drone photography, GPS coordinates, and ground-penetrating ...

Two valleys extending away from a giant crater suggest that upcoming Artemis missions are more likely to sample ancient lunar ...

Coal-fired power plants in India—responsible for generating 73.4% of the country’s electricity —are bad for the country’s ...

Discarded explosives were dumped into the Baltic and North seas after World War II. Their deadly legacy is still with us.

A record of soil moisture that extends over one thousand years allows for the investigation of occurrence and causes of ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

Wind vibrations measured by NASA’s InSight mission seismometer are mapped into wind speed and direction to detect major annual weather patterns and open new possibilities for planetary instrumentation ...

A new modeling study shows that to accurately interpret data derived from an iconic proxy of past Atlantic overturning strength, we must consider the complex factors governing the proxy systematics.