Pyroclastic surges are lethal hazards from volcanoes that exhibit enormous destructiveness through large dynamic pressures of 100–102 kilopascal inside flows...
A simplified mathematical model of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and temperature found a “lag time” between human intervention and an...
Periods of record low snow levels over the past decade have increased the urgency of snow research. As snow studies...
While driving an electric car has fewer environmental impacts than gasoline-powered cars, the production of the parts necessary for these...
The tropics is becoming hotter due to a combination of warming associated with deforestation and climate change—and that can reduce...
As soon as he heard that La Palma’s volcano had erupted, Australian geologist Matt Pankhurst loaded his microscope into his...
Researchers say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by...
Voluntary pledges by major U.S. electric utility companies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of one-third of 2018...
Here are some little known facts about bamboo: bamboo grows fast—really fast. It has an amazing regenerative quality. It eats...
A machine-learning approach developed for sparse data reliably predicts fault slip in laboratory earthquakes and could be key to predicting...
Earthquakes of similar magnitude can cause tsunamis of greatly varying sizes. This commonly observed, but not well-understood phenomenon has hindered...
The Earth’s climate is an extremely complex system that is driven by the subtle balance of many different processes—a key...
