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 ...

The Flint, Mich., water crisis began when state-appointed emergency managers switched the city’s drinking water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River in April 2014. Credit: State of ...

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 ...

Presentations that have captions are better understood, whether they are in-person or remote. Captions make verbal material more accessible to a wider variety of people. A study of BBC television ...

A satellite image of an atmospheric river over the northeastern Pacific on 20 February 2017, which helped California and the American West emerge from a 5-year drought. Atmospheric rivers—relatively ...

Plate tectonics just turned 50. The theory of how our planet’s lithosphere—its outer layer—changes shape and evolves is probably one of the most important scientific advancements of all time. Before ...

The launch plume from a test missile, photographed on 10 October 2013 by astronaut Luca Parmitano, diffuses into the middle and upper atmosphere during the first ...

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. Tidewater glaciers—colossal ...

Urban heat islands, hot pockets of city where asphalt, dense buildings, and infrastructure cause the temperature to rise higher than in surrounding areas, are home to millions of people who are not ...

The Waitepuru Stream flows from its headwaters in the Mokaingarara Hills, down to the Rangitaiki Plains, and through the tiny community of Matatā as it makes its way to New Zealand’s wide Bay of ...

Example time slices of geomagnetic field intensity at Earth’s surface over the past 100 thousand years (ka) from the global GGF100k model show the field variability. This includes structures ...

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this microwave image of the Earth, including the Arctic sea ice cap, on 3 September 2010. Satellite images such as this provide a compelling visual record of seasonal ...