Artificial intelligence models have improved weather forecasting, but their inner workings are largely opaque. A new approach ...

The federal government shut down just after midnight on 1 October. Credit: Beth Bagley/AGU Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law ...

Since last May, climate change added an extra month of extreme heat for half the world’s population. Credit: James Day/Unsplash Sixty-seven extreme heat events have occurred since May 2024. All of ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

The Flint, Mich., water crisis began when state-appointed emergency managers switched the city’s drinking water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River in April 2014. Credit: State of ...

Map of inferred wind directions from parabola deposits (arrows). Arrow color denotes the age of the deposit – light blue is youngest and dark blue is oldest. The older arrows are more dispersed in ...

OSIRIS-REx’s Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism collected more than 120 grams of regolith from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold, Public Domain Regolith ...

The ebb and flow of tectonic processes have driven biodiversity on Earth for the past 250 million years. Credit: Joan Li, Unsplash For the past 250 million years, species have diversified and died out ...

Firefighters light and monitor prescribed burns to reduce the risk of extreme wildfires. But climate change may lead to fewer opportunities for these preventative measures. Credit: terski/Pixabay The ...

A recent study analyzed currents, salinity, temperature, and more in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. Credit: NOAA NMFS SWFSC Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program, CC BY 2.0 Every year ...

The Konza Prairie Biological Station in Kansas has changed over the past 30 years. Woody vegetation now grows where grasses once thrived. Credit: Walter Dodds Read more Walter Dodds has watched the ...