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 ...
In the coming decades, climate change is likely to lead to a loss of sea ice in and an influx of warmer water to the Arctic Ocean, affecting the ocean’s vertical circulation. Brown et al. recently ...
An automated hydrological logger (drip logger) sits on a stalagmite at Wombeyan Caves in New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Andy Baker Groundwater is one of Earth’s most important natural ...
In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...
Tunnels of cold water from Antarctica may have driven a chill in the Western Pacific Warm Pool 1.5 million years ago. Credit: NOAA About 1.5 million years ago, the mid-depth waters of the tropical ...
Permafrost across the Arctic is degrading, causing erosion as well as changes to microbial communities. Credit: Benjamin Jones/USGS/Flickr, Public Domain In the Arctic, a major variable for future ...
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 ...
Two new studies investigate the possible origins of organic molecules detected in plumes erupting from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, pictured here in an artist’s impression. Enceladus’s ...
Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today. Today, NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
Coupling an AI-driven model of the atmosphere with a model of the ocean could help scientists create highly efficient emulations of the entire Earth system. Modelers have demonstrated that artificial ...
A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...
The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...
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