A new study offers insights into a puzzling piece of the geological history of the Grand Canyon and surrounding regions.

A new study demonstrates how the abundance of congestus clouds in the tropics can be explained by the water molecule’s discerning appetite for infrared radiation.

The impacts of COVID-19 on short-lived pollutants highlight the predominant influence of the transportation sector and the ...

A new technique shows that the dominance of gradual versus chaotic electron heating processes at Earth’s bow shock is ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

By documenting Alaska’s lakes and ponds in unprecedented detail, Levenson et al. show where and how water bodies can signal underlying permafrost thaw, providing a step toward a straightforward, ...

A new computer modeling-based study demonstrates dual mechanisms that reduce pre- and post-landfall tropical cyclone ...

An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

New data from Lago Argentino, Patagonia reveal that glacial erosion occurs in discrete pulses, which challenges previous ...

Tsunamis can be triggered as secondary disasters following megathrust earthquakes, with their intensity largely dependent on the magnitude of shallow seismic ruptures. Historically, considerable ...

Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.