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 ...

Northern ecosystems are changing rapidly as permafrost thaws, glaciers retreat, and precipitation patterns change. As a result, the rhythms of river flow are shifting, too, according to a new analysis ...

Climate subsystems, such as summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, can undergo abrupt shifts as temperatures rise. Credit: khail Varentsov, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 They then ...

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, ...

The seemingly thick atmosphere of exoplanet TOI-561 b, seen here in an artist’s rendition, is most likely composed of material outgassed from its molten surface. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford ...

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Early life may have branched out when Earth’s magnetic field was at a low. Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester For more than a billion years after first emerging, life on Earth was stuck ...

Carbon mineralization is a promising solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, but we must learn to optimize the complex interplay between reactions and mechanics in fractures to develop a ...

We live at a unique moment in Earth’s climatic history. Our planet has been both hotter and colder in the past, flipping between periods when it was swathed in ice and when temperatures soared far ...

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 ...

Shasta Dam in Northern California’s Sacramento Valley produces an average of nearly 2,000 gigawatt-hours of hydroelectric power each year. Credit: Jeff Blankenship ...