Researchers collected soil and ash after the 2020 wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Chemical tests suggested that ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global ...

Large scale observational networks are necessary for understanding the impact of a warming climate in the Arctic, but ...

The West Pacific pattern correlates with high pressure, increased temperature, decreased precipitation, and higher burned ...

A dire lack of investment in oceangoing vessels means the U.S. ocean sciences community is lagging, scientists say. Three new ...

A new study found that access to air-conditioning is a stronger predictor of emergency department visits related to PM2.5 ...

New research shows that warming beginning about 13,000 years ago contributed to a proliferation of landslides in Iceland.

Peering deep under California’s Sierra Nevada, Schulte-Pelkum and Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric foundering in progress. The team imaged the lower crust and uppermost mantle beneath the ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In terms of “natural” disasters, attention is currently ...

The summer of 1969 was approaching, and Priscilla Nelson, a self-proclaimed “hippie chick,” had a muddy decision to make: attend Woodstock or go to geology field camp. In the end, she chose ...

From hordes rushing into national parks to mourners holding glacier funerals, tourists wanting to take in threatened natural places may be shifting visitation patterns.