Rainfall can wash topsoil from farm fields, a process that more extreme rainfall events will accelerate. Credit: John/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Good topsoil does not accumulate quickly. Less than a tenth ...
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 ...
High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...
The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research includes entirely closing the center’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. Credit: C. Calvin, University ...
An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...
New research examined the geochemistry of magma crystals from the mostly submarine stratovolcano Bogoslof in Alaska to better forecast future eruptions. Credit: T. Keith/U.S. Geological Survey via ...
Lunar Crater in Nevada and the volcanic field that surrounds it came about via intraplate volcanism. Credit: Ken Lund/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 The distribution of water in the MTZ, both today and in the ...
Landslides on the southern side of Lake Takengon in Sumatra triggered by the November 2025 rains. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 30 November 2025. The Landslide Blog ...
Astronomer Johann Caspar Staudacher sketched these sunspot drawings of long-lasting extreme magnetic storm activity in 1770. Credit: Hayakawa et al., 2017, https ...
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At about 8 pm on 13 June 2024, a failure occurred in the embankment ...
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 ...
A new analysis maps increasing incidents of wildfire on the edges of Terra Indígena do Vale do Javari, an Indigenous territory in western Brazil. Credit: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND ...