Water loss associated with aquifers and basins in South America, including Brazil’s São Francisco River, amounts to 95% of water loss on Earth, new research shows. Credit: Cleferson Comarela/Wikimedia ...

Years ago, scientists noted something odd: Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres reflect nearly the same amount of sunlight back into space. The reason why this symmetry is odd is because the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hurricane Melissa is bearing down on Jamaica, with many areas likely to see over 500 mm of rainfall. The impacts could be extremely significant. Hurricane Melissa has strengthened substantially over ...

Ten years have passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished after departing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with 239 people aboard. Military and scientific personnel spent months combing unexplored ...

Wildfires dot Russia’s Siberian Arctic, imaged by the Terra satellite in June 2020. Such fires are becoming significantly more common in the region. Credit: Pierre Markuse via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 ...

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 ...

A new paper describes a rock avalanche in Greenland about 10,900 years BP that had a volume of over 1 billion cubic metres and that travelled almost 16 kilometres. The rear scar of the landslide is ...

A collection of Commentaries published in the journals of the American Geophysical Union illuminate the deep and growing benefits of research in the Earth and space sciences for humanity. This image ...

Global river datasets represent rivers that flow downstream in single paths that follow surface elevation, but they often miss branching river systems found in areas such as floodplains, canals, and ...