The aftermath of the landslide dam breach at Matai'an in Taiwan. Image by the Forest Protection Department. At least 15 people are known to have been killed by the debris flow and flood from the ...

The Auckland region is dotted with distinctive, visible volcanoes and mostly invisible fault lines. Scientists are still trying to understand how they’re connected. Credit: Bruce Hayward/Wikimedia ...

A recent photograph of the Matai'an landslide dam and lake in Taiwan. Image by the Forest Protection Administration of Taiwan. Extremely heavy rainfall associated with super typhoon Ragasa could cause ...

Researchers warn that preventable heat-related deaths will continue to rise with continued fossil fuel emissions.

A wakeboat churns up surfable waves while piloting over acoustic sensors on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. New research analyzed how different watercraft affect the lake bed at various depths. Credit: ...

After water from a subglacial lake broke through the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it seems to have flowed for several kilometers before reentering the ice and traveling beneath Harder Glacier, ...

Heat waves, such as the record-breaking Siberian heat wave in 2020, are having lingering impacts on Arctic ecosystems. Credit: Andrei Zverev/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 Now Kwon et al. suggest that the ...

Enterprise Rupes, a large fault that cuts across the Rembrandt Basin crater (the large crater on the right) on the surface of Mercury. This fault—and many others like it—may have resulted from the ...

Karst groundwaters are vital resources, providing drinking water to nearly 10% of the world’s population. However, human activities and global change have deteriorated the karst water quality and ...

As the global climate continues to warm, fire seasons have intensified, and large-scale wildfires have become more frequent in many parts of the world. Factors such as vegetation type, land use ...

A satellite image of the Juruena River shows areas of deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Dark green areas are intact tropical forest, light green areas are cattle farms, and yellow or brown areas ...

As the climate warms, the atmosphere is getting thirstier. Scientists define this atmospheric thirst, or evaporative demand, as the amount of water that could potentially evaporate from Earth’s ...