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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unprecedented global assessment examines climate, economic, and governance threats to mountain systems and the benefits they provide, suggesting pathways toward sustainability. The project began ...

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 ...

A satellite image of Guangfu township in Taiwan after the breach of the Matai'an landslide dam. Image copyright Planet, used with permission. Image dated 27 September 2025. It is likely that the final ...