Corals are important calcifiers in the ocean. Credit: Curtis Suttle, The University of British Columbia The ocean plays a major role in reducing the impact of climate change by absorbing both heat and ...

Geophysics is a powerful tool for understanding how our planet works. It enables us to connect complex real-world phenomena with fundamental physical laws, deduce the nature of otherwise inaccessible ...

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 ...

Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...

Barium clouds and auroral arcs are seen in this still frame from a video shot from Sodankylä, Finland, with a digital camera at 18:29:44 UTC, 15 seconds after the last barium release of the Barium ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor. Shrimp, skate, sole, cod ...

High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...

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 ...

An olive tree in Ni’lin, a town in the West Bank, caught fire after a tear gas grenade detonated during a Palestinian demonstration against land confiscation by Israel in 2016. Credit: יורם שורק via ...

Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. In 2001, Clark ...

Background colors show the CFC-11 pressure anomaly from a 30-year simulation using the MALTA model. The year-to-year variations are caused by the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), a natural ...

Two observers in southeast Alaska log monitoring data. Credit: Lee House, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card 2025 NOAA released this year’s Arctic Report Card on 16 December at AGU’s Annual Meeting 2025 in New ...