In Antarctic lakes such as Lake Fryxell, fresh water freezes over briny liquid water. New research suggests that the liquid seawater during “snowball Earth” was up to 4 times saltier than modern ocean ...

The year 2023 was Earth’s third hottest on record, and the United States’ fourth hottest. Credit: Luis Graterol, Unsplash Global average temperatures in 2025 were the third hottest on record, ...

Two United Tribes Technical College students collect soil samples from an undeveloped piece of land on their campus in Bismarck, N.D. Credit: Emily Biggane As the climate continues to change, soil and ...

Meteorological tsunamis, or meteotsunamis, are long ocean waves in the tsunami frequency band that are generated by traveling air pressure and wind disturbances. These underrated phenomena pose ...

(a) False-color image of a slowly moving twin front recorded over 20 ms (experiment CC12). The moving twin is highlighted in green and marked by a white arrow (see inset and supplementary video). The ...

Scientists collected sediment cores from the Southern Ocean to gather evidence for the existence of a “salty blob” that sequestered carbon deep in the ocean during the last ice age. Credit: Ryan ...

The Trump administration has holistically reevaluated the government’s relationship—and how it responds to threats— to the health and welfare of its citizens. The past year was a shock to the U.S.

An American alligator surfaces in a Louisiana bayou. As apex predators, alligators shape wetland ecosystems through both trophic interactions and physical landscape ...

The aftermath of the 28 January 2026 landslide at the Rubaya mining complex in the DRC. Still from a video posted to Youtube by APT. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely ...

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