When magma bubbles up toward Earth’s surface and meets groundwater, steam pressure builds, sometimes bursting into eruptions that spew currents...
To clear the way for planting wheat in November, a farmer in Punjab, India, sets aflame the leftover straw, or...
In a major field campaign in 2020, Dr. Raphaela Vogel who is now at Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System...
Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and so too are the usually less-severe aftershocks that often follow a major seismic...
Methane emissions created by volcanic activity burning buried fossil fuel deposits could have played a major role in the global...
Satellite observations have revealed that weak seismic ground shaking can trigger powerful landslide acceleration—even several years after a significant earthquake....
The Earth’s mantle makes up about 85% of the Earth’s volume and is made of solid rock. But exactly what...
Greater atmospheric demand for water means a dramatic increase in the risk of major fires in global forests unless we...
Protected areas are one of the most effective tools for safeguarding biodiversity, but new research published today has found that...
A warming climate is causing a decline in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, where loss of sea ice has...
The amount of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere makes it a habitable planet. Twenty-one percent of the atmosphere consists of...
Flinders University oceanography experts have described a new kind of cyclone in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra after observing satellite...
