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...
Using carbon tax revenue to fund free green electricity and public transport could significantly reduce individual households’ greenhouse gas emissions,...
New research has shed light on a sudden cooling event 34 million years ago that contributed to formation of the...
By disrupting normal societal activities, such as driving, COVID-19 lockdowns afforded a unique opportunity to study their impacts on the...
It’s hard to overstate the environmental importance of trees, which among other functions pull climate change-inducing carbon from the atmosphere,...
By the late 21st century, northeastern U.S. cities will see worsening hurricane outcomes, with storms arriving more quickly but slowing...
UN projections of how much current climate policies and national pledges to cut carbon pollution will slow global warming are...
