Waterfalls have a specific threshold of water flow that must be maintained to preserve their characteristic sound and appearance, according...
A civil and environmental engineering researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has, for the first time, assimilated satellite information...
The world’s eight most extreme wildfire weather years have occurred in the last decade, according to a new study that...
Climate change is the “overwhelming factor” driving the country’s ever-more intense bushfires, Australian government scientists believe—directly contradicting claims by the...
With its large crater lake of turquoise water, plumes of smoke and sulphurous bubbling of mud and gases, the Krafla...
Volcanic gasses are helping researchers track large-scale movements in Earth’s deep interior. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists, together with...
In Earth’s crust, tectonic blocks slide and grind past each other like enormous ships loosed from anchor. Earthquakes are generated...
Monsoons are found not only in South Asia; they are part of a global-scale circulation that affects almost all tropical...
The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century—decades earlier than records suggest—due to warmer...
Based on recent breakthroughs in instruments and data modeling, researchers from the Department of Geoscience and the Department of Electrical...
Trains have been on the sidelines of electrification efforts for a long time in the U.S. because they account for...
The critical zone is Earth’s outer skin, the space between treetops and bedrock. The critical zone is a community comprising...
