Frontline communities are commonly described as groups most affected by environmental and social challenges. Marston et al. [2025] offer a broader definition based on the experiences of ...

Alfvén waves are fundamental to the dynamics of space plasmas. New space missions, sophisticated rocket campaigns, and advances in radar networks and computer modeling have grown our understanding of ...

The EarthArXiv preprint archive, in operation for almost a year and a half, makes the latest Earth science research available to a wider community. Leonardo DiCaprio (right) and Earth scientist Piers ...

Mud volcanoes may be less imposing and less familiar than their distant cousins, lava volcanoes, but they come with hazards of their own, and their presence can signal hidden geologic processes ...

As the climate warms, the atmosphere is getting thirstier. Scientists define this atmospheric thirst, or evaporative demand, as the amount of water that could potentially evaporate from Earth’s ...

Sediment cores collected by instruments such as this one on the back of R/V Neil Armstrong shed light on how the North Atlantic Ocean of the last ice age circulated. Credit: Alice Carter-Champion A ...

Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...

A massive gully has been developing over the last two decades at Pondok Balik. It now covers an area of over 3 hectares. In Indonesia, a massive and rapidly developing gully is causing considerable ...

Feather fossils are rarely found in three dimensions and are even more rarely found in mineralized form. Credit: Edoardo Terranova Valentina Rossi first saw the 30,000-year-old griffon vulture as a ...

Geographic information system (GIS) maps help researchers, policymakers, and community members see how environmental risks are spread throughout a given region. These types of interactive, layered ...

The figure shows results of different terrace formation models across countless combinations of parameters within the model. Through this sensitivity analyses and despite the potentially large ...

Simulated image showing gigantic streams of helium escaping from the atmosphere of planet HAT-P-32b as it orbits its host star. Credit: M. MacLeod (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and A.