Most airline passengers have no idea how little of the ocean floor beneath them has been mapped. Credit: nateemee/iStock.com It has been 3 years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, and ...

Stable auroral red (SAR) arcs and strong thermal emission velocity enhancement (STEVE) phenomena are optical structures that have been detected in the subauroral upper atmosphere. Whereas aurorae are ...

The Cerrado savanna in Brazil is the second-largest biome in South America and stores as much carbon as 20% of the Amazon rainforest, according to new research. Credit: Andre Dib The Cerrado savanna ...

The number of fatal landslides in 2026 to the end of February was considerably above both the long term mean and the year with the highest total, 2024. To bring everything back up to date, I am ...

Sediment cores extracted from deep under the Aegean Sea reveal the timing of explosive eruptions of Kolumbo Volcano and a potential link to neighboring Santorini. Kolumbo is a little-known underwater ...

This simulation shows what it might look like to dive into a lunar pit and explore a connected lava tube. Credit: Conor Marsh, University of Manchester/ ESA The Moon’s surface is pockmarked with more ...

A storm preluding an MJO event over the tropical Indian Ocean. Credit: Yuji Kashino, RIGC/JAMSTEC The Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a tropical atmospheric phenomenon. It usually starts over the ...

The quality and quantity of springs around the world have been declining over recent decades, largely due to human activities and climate change. A new book in AGU’s Geophysical Monograph Series, ...

Geostationary satellites can collect frequent measurements of temperatures and other characteristics of Earth’s land surfaces, allowing them to detect rapid changes and disturbances. Land surface ...

The Dragonfly probe flies over sand dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan in this artist’s impression. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Strange things are afoot on Saturn’s largest moon. Alone ...

Climate change affects plants on the surface, the soil below, and interactions between them. Shown here is a soil profile from a grassland in Iceland. Credit: Fabrizzio Protti Sánchez Soil ecosystems ...

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 ...