Coral reef growth rates in the tropical western Atlantic have slowed to a fraction of what they once were, erasing coastal protection benefits they once offered.

Hotel Termas de Rupanco., which was destroyed by the landslide-induced tsunami 1960. Image from Enterreno., posted by Francisco Vidal Guzmán under a by-nc licence. Reconstruction of landslides on the ...

McDougall and Argall now report observations of a switchback-shaped structure in Earth’s magnetic field, suggesting that switchbacks can also form near planets. The researchers discovered the ...

During a 45-day Arctic expedition aboard the R/V Sikuliaq, researchers collected ice cores containing diatoms that revealed how microorganisms move in extremely cold environments. Credit: Lexi Arlen ...

The figure depicts the hierarchy of different types of Earth System climate models. These vary in complexity (increasing from bottom to top) and in the kinds of compromises sacrificed to computation.

Around 1.1 billion years ago, the oldest and most tectonically stable part of North America—called Laurentia—was rapidly heading south toward the equator. Laurentia eventually slammed into Earth’s ...

An algal bloom in the Gulf of Alaska in April 2017. Credit: NASA/Goddard/NPP, CC BY 2.0 Smelting metals and burning coal vaporize small amounts of iron. Some of this iron wafts out of East Asia and ...

Carter Newell of Pemaquid Mussel Farms handles oysters in the Damariscotta River in Maine. Maine’s shellfish industry may soon have to grapple with the effects of ocean acidification. Credit: ...

The current situation on the Birch Glacier at Blatten. Note the rockslide in the background, the huge volume of debris on the ice at the bottom of this slope, the ice of the glacier itself and the ...

The seatbelt sign is always on when you’re flying through a hurricane. Credit: Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Doremus, NOAA Corps Frank Marks remembers the Diet Coke can floating in front of his face as the plane ...

Rocks are important in subsurface engineering, but they are mostly invisible, extremely heterogeneous, and difficult to access. Thus, data on rock properties is scarce and uncertainties are large. Liu ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Switzerland, a dramatic rock slope failure is developing above ...