Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

Eight people have been killed or are missing in two landslides triggered by heavy rainfall in New Zealand Substantial parts of New Zeealand have been suffering extreme rainfall – yet again – causing ...

Karst groundwaters are vital resources, providing drinking water to nearly 10% of the world’s population. However, human activities and global change have deteriorated the karst water quality and ...

Great white egrets stand in the wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Land in this area of the Mississippi River Delta is sinking, both on its own and in tandem with rising sea levels. Credit: Elise Plunk ...

The past year was a shock to the U.S. higher education system. The coming year may see even more jolts. Administration ...

Evidence of a massive underwater landslide lurks beneath the seafloor of the Norwegian Sea. Credit: Politikaner/NASA World Wind, Public Domain When it comes to landslides, some of our planet’s largest ...

New research found that sediments emptied into the waters of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, by Aialik Glacier were more dense in bioavailable micronutrients than sediments reaching the fjords ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says. Pictures of a rocky outcrop snapped ...

The flow of the Earth’s mantle creates tectonic stresses beneath the lithosphere, the Earth’s rigid outer shell. The stress inside the lithosphere causes its shattering, forming fault-and-fracture ...

Clouds on Venus race across the sky at speeds of more than 100 meters per second, driven by incompletely understood atmospheric dynamics. Credit: Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 Imagine the catastrophic ...

Aurorae such as the southern lights, seen here over Antarctica, show the geomagnetic field in action. Some areas of the field, which shields Earth’s surface from charged solar particles, are stronger ...