Coral reef growth rates in the tropical western Atlantic have slowed to a fraction of what they once were, erasing coastal ...

The lower Matai'an landslide barrier lake prior to the failure on 21 October 2025. Still from a video posted to Youtube by CNA English News courtesy of the Hualien branch of the Forestry and Nature ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NASA-led carbon observation satellite allows researchers to scan the atmosphere over cities like New York to measure carbon emissions. Credit: Dietmar Rabich/Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 Because ...

Hotel Termas de Rupanco., which was destroyed by the landslide-induced tsunami 1960. Image from Enterreno., posted by Francisco Vidal Guzmán under a by-nc licence. Reconstruction of landslides on the ...

The Southern Ocean May Be Building Up a Massive Burp 20 October 202520 October 2025 Editors' Highlights ...

Storm Agnes is seen over the Bay of Biscay offshore western Europe on 27 September 2023 in this image captured by the Flexible Combined Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite. Credit: ...

Meteorologist and atmospheric scientist Neil Jacobs, perhaps best known for his involvement in “Sharpiegate,” was confirmed as the new leader of NOAA on Tuesday evening. Credit: Senate.gov Research & ...

A major slope collapse in frozen sediments in Canada highlights the role of progressive failure. Back in January of this year, I posted fascinating a piece by Derek Cronmiller of the Yukon Geological ...

In July 2025, I recorded 71 fatal landslides worldwide, with the loss of 214 lives. Each year, July is one of the key months for the occurrence of fatal landslides globally as the Asian monsoon season ...

Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical equations can approximate the underlying physics of weather, tiny ...