The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, on the Bering Peninsula in Alaska, is currently above sea level. Credit: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Today the Bering Strait is a ...

Around the world, phytoplankton in the upper ocean help to cycle key nutrients and regulate Earth’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide. These photosynthesizing organisms rely on dissolved iron as an ...

The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...

An artist’s concept depicts what the Earth-analogue planet might look like, with the white dwarf star in the background. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Earth’s future is bleak. At best, ...

A photograph taken near the town of Popoyo, Nicaragua, during a post-tsunami survey following a Mw = 7.7 earthquake that struck Nicaragua’s Pacific coast on 1 September 1992 local time. Here ...

A new community science project brings together the Cowichan Tribes, the provincial government of British Columbia, and scientists to study the Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo' (Koksilah River). Credit: David ...

The upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will likely have above-normal activity, according to the annual outlook produced by NOAA. NOAA issues an Atlantic hurricane season outlook each May, using ...

The Atlantic has seen significant decreases in cloud cover recently. Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center In a string of ever-hotter years, 2023 stood out: It was ...

Satellite images are revealing the scale of the destruction in Sri Lanka caused by landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah at the end of November 2025. At the end of November 2025, a “weak” tropical ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, seen here in an artist’s concept, has been orbiting Mars since 2014. Credit: NASA/GSFC Mars’s current atmosphere is downright tenuous—conferring less than 1% the pressure of ...

Every MLB baseball is smeared with a bit of special mud harvested from a secret location in New Jersey. Researchers took this “magic mud” into the lab to bring some science to this piece of baseball ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Switzerland, a dramatic rock slope failure is developing above ...