Artificial intelligence models have improved weather forecasting, but their inner workings are largely opaque. A new approach ...

New research suggests that as Earth traveled through space over billions of years, its movements in and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (seen here from the top of Cerro Armazones, Chile) may ...

Fair peer review is a necessity for research across all scientific disciplines. Thousands of experts volunteer their time each year to advance scientific understanding and provide feedback to their ...

Meteorologist and atmospheric scientist Neil Jacobs, perhaps best known for his involvement in “Sharpiegate,” was confirmed as the new leader of NOAA on Tuesday evening. Credit: Senate.gov Research & ...

A major slope collapse in frozen sediments in Canada highlights the role of progressive failure. Back in January of this year, I posted fascinating a piece by Derek Cronmiller of the Yukon Geological ...

Today we are witnessing rapid global sea level rise attributable mostly to climate change–driven melting of ice sheets and glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater. However, sea level change also ...

The ebb and flow of tectonic processes have driven biodiversity on Earth for the past 250 million years. Credit: Joan Li, Unsplash For the past 250 million years, species have diversified and died out ...

The current situation on the Birch Glacier at Blatten. Note the rockslide in the background, the huge volume of debris on the ice at the bottom of this slope, the ice of the glacier itself and the ...

McDougall and Argall now report observations of a switchback-shaped structure in Earth’s magnetic field, suggesting that switchbacks can also form near planets. The researchers discovered the ...

In July 2025, I recorded 71 fatal landslides worldwide, with the loss of 214 lives. Each year, July is one of the key months for the occurrence of fatal landslides globally as the Asian monsoon season ...

A translation of this article was made by Wiley. 本文由Wiley提供翻译稿。 Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how waterways and ...

Good digital data is now being published that presents the scale of landscape change that occurred as a result of the Matai’an landslide hazard cascade. There is also interesting information about the ...