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 ...

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

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.

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.

Geoengineering approaches such as stratospheric aerosol injection hold the promise of limiting warming, but among the many potential risks and concerns, their impacts on agriculture remain largely ...

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

Billions of years ago, iron-oxidizing microbes may have competed for dissolved iron in the ocean, with some strains producing toxic gases that smothered their rivals.