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 ...

Editorial boards are the lifeblood of scholarly journals. Editors and associate editors are key decision makers that guide AGU Publications in publishing high-quality and rigorously done geoscience.

Coccolithophores build armored shells out of calcium carbonate, influencing ocean chemistry in the process. Credit: Courtesy Dr. Alison Taylor; Mejia, 2011, https ...

The Amazon rainforest is home to a diverse cast of plants and animals. This vital, verdant landscape also plays a crucial role in managing the effects of climate change by storing significant amounts ...

Like many states, California is facing a growing number of climate-related extremes: The annual acreage scorched by wildfires in the state increased fivefold between 1972 and 2018, and burns are also ...

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 ...

The ground beneath our feet is exhaling. Steadily and without pause, through a process called soil respiration, plant roots and microbes release carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the atmosphere. This ...

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 ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. As the SW. Monsoon in South Asia withdraws, the landslide season in ...

Telecom fiber repurposed as distributed acoustic sensing arrays can image near-surface structure and potentially improve seismic hazard mapping in urban areas. How much the ground moves during an ...

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 ...

Sea-level rise (SLR) increasingly threatens coastal communities around the world. However, not all locations are equally threatened, and realistic estimation of hazard is difficult. Understanding SLR ...