A dire lack of investment in oceangoing vessels means the U.S. ocean sciences community is lagging, scientists say. Three new ...

The West Pacific pattern correlates with high pressure, increased temperature, decreased precipitation, and higher burned area during autumn in the western United States.

Large scale observational networks are necessary for understanding the impact of a warming climate in the Arctic, but ...

A new study found that access to air-conditioning is a stronger predictor of emergency department visits related to PM2.5 ...

Peering deep under California’s Sierra Nevada, Schulte-Pelkum and Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric foundering in ...

New research shows that warming beginning about 13,000 years ago contributed to a proliferation of landslides in Iceland.

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In terms of “natural” disasters, attention is currently ...

Swirling currents called mesoscale eddies occupy about 22% of the ice-free Southern Ocean. Using data from drifting floats ...

From hordes rushing into national parks to mourners holding glacier funerals, tourists wanting to take in threatened natural places may be shifting visitation patterns.

Cyclic changes of fluid pressure in fault zones can induce slow-slip events that advance in the direction of fluid flow, even when the faults are stable.

The geomorphology of a protected atoll likely contributed to its ability to maintain its shoreline over a turbulent half-century.