Measuring plastic particles carried on Cozumel’s sea breezes and ocean currents reveals how simple physics shapes the particles’ pathways and the impacts they may have on coastal regions.

Heavy winter rainfall has triggered further movement at this infamous landslide site in California, causing damage to properties and infrastructure The Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex in Rancho ...

Sediment cores extracted from deep under the Aegean Sea reveal the timing of explosive eruptions of Kolumbo Volcano and a potential link to neighboring Santorini. Kolumbo is a little-known underwater ...

The Cerrado savanna in Brazil is the second-largest biome in South America and stores as much carbon as 20% of the Amazon rainforest, according to new research. Credit: Andre Dib The Cerrado savanna ...

Geostationary satellites can collect frequent measurements of temperatures and other characteristics of Earth’s land surfaces, allowing them to detect rapid changes and disturbances. Land surface ...

Surface meltwater ponding and drainage in the Greenland Ice Sheet is analyzed at high spatial and temporal resolution through SkySat imagery and deep learning. Liquid water from melting Greenland ice ...

Climate change’s impacts on mangroves were incorporated into a new calculation of the social cost of carbon, a measure of the monetary damages climate change is causing. Credit: Kristin Hoel, Unsplash ...

In 2025, I recorded 663 global fatal landslides, costing 5,091 lives. I have fallen a little behind with providing updates on global fatal landslides – a consequence of the pressures associated with ...

A research team could get models of Earth’s magnetic fields (left) to match real-world observations (right) only when they included the mantle’s BLOBS in simulations run on the ARCHER2 supercomputer.