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Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Poul Christoffersen The world’s second-largest

Germany’s icebreaking research vessel Polarstern (operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research). Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut

NASA is launching a prototype instrument that could make it easier to monitor volcanic activity and air quality. Perched aboard

Hot and cold beneath Tonga volcano. Credit: © Planetary Visions (ESA/Planetary Visions) The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption

Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel (2021), processed

Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last

  Earth system models and climate models are a complex integration of environmental variables used for understanding our planet. Earth

Geoengineering aims to intervene in Earth’s climate to fight global warming. A group of 60 scientists called for a moratorium

A slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. A team of

Ultra-Low Velocity Zones sit between the Earth’s outer core and lower mantle. Researchers have uncovered the most detail ever of

The research team finds Atlantic cod in the Arctic Ocean. Credit: UFA Show & Factual, Germany Single individuals of Atlantic

A recent slowdown in the melting of Iceland’s glaciers is likely caused by a patch of unusually cold water in

May 25, 2021 While in orbit over Egypt, an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) captured a photograph of

Anna Ruth Halberstadt conducting field research in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Credit: Anna Ruth Halberstadt Discrepancy between terrestrial and marine

The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (38 miles) into the atmosphere. When

Collecting water samples from the Hudson River. Credit: Adam Steckley More than 70% of microplastics found in samples from oceans

In 18 zones of the U.S. West, plant water sensitivity is high (>1.5), and the vapor pressure deficit is rising

Scientist investigating coastal erosion caused by thawing permafrost near Bykovsky Peninsula, Laptev Sea, Siberia, Russia. Credit: AWI/Paul Overduin Erosion is

Germany’s icebreaking research vessel Polarstern (operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research). Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut

Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Poul Christoffersen The world’s second-largest