Climate subsystems, such as summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, can undergo abrupt shifts as temperatures rise. Credit: khail Varentsov, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 They then ...

Early life may have branched out when Earth’s magnetic field was at a low. Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester For more than a billion years after first emerging, life on Earth was stuck ...

Barium clouds and auroral arcs are seen in this still frame from a video shot from Sodankylä, Finland, with a digital camera at 18:29:44 UTC, 15 seconds after the last barium release of the Barium ...

The Flint, Mich., water crisis began when state-appointed emergency managers switched the city’s drinking water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River in April 2014. Credit: State of ...

An olive tree in Ni’lin, a town in the West Bank, caught fire after a tear gas grenade detonated during a Palestinian demonstration against land confiscation by Israel in 2016. Credit: יורם שורק via ...

Field testing and comparisons of different thermal imaging cameras were conducted during the Great Thermal Bake-off workshop in August 2024. In this image captured by one of the cameras, colors ...

An algal bloom in the Gulf of Alaska in April 2017. Credit: NASA/Goddard/NPP, CC BY 2.0 Smelting metals and burning coal vaporize small amounts of iron. Some of this iron wafts out of East Asia and ...

Mars’s Jezero crater contains channels and other water-sculpted features like deltas. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL Mars is a frigid world today, and all of ...

Humans plan to return to the Moon later this decade and will do so with a clear goal in mind: long-term lunar habitation. One outcome of that ambitious goal is unintended alteration of the lunar ...

Geophysics is a powerful tool for understanding how our planet works. It enables us to connect complex real-world phenomena with fundamental physical laws, deduce the nature of otherwise inaccessible ...

Researchers studied the movement of dust devils on Mars to learn more about wind on the Red Planet. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO In 2020, the scientists and engineers behind NASA’s InSight ...

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