As much as 70% of California was covered by wildfire smoke during parts of 2020 and 2021, according to a...
Late on August 31, 1886, while many people were asleep, a large quake rocked Charleston, South Carolina, and the surrounding...
Researchers have built a prototype fiber optic gyroscope for high resolution, real-time monitoring of ground rotations caused by earthquakes in...
Deposits of designated critical minerals needed to transition the world’s energy systems away from fossil fuels may, ironically enough, be...
New MBARI research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful...
Dozens of Alaska’s most remote streams and rivers are turning from a crystal clear blue into a cloudy orange, and...
Few things in nature are as predictable as ocean tides. Driven by the moon’s and sun’s gravitational pull, these persistent,...
Since 2015, the Amazon has been slower to recover from increasing drought events, but, overall, the rainforest still shows a...
Research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth’s largest earthquakes and tsunamis....
Recognizing and respecting the different ways nature is valued can enable better environmental decision-making, according to new research led by...
It turns out plastics in the ocean do more than suffocate turtles, fish and other marine life. A new study...
by Jakob Weis, Andrew Bowie, Christina Schallenberg, Peter Strutton and Zanna Chase, The Conversation The Southern Ocean, a region critical...
