Most of the fires grew out of control under extreme heat conditions made up to five times more likely by climate change.

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Hawaii's March 2026 flooding exposed more than damaged roads and homes. True recovery must prioritize local needs and long-term preparedness....

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How the Trump Administration has yet again hobbled the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration has officially finalized a rule stripping habitat destruction from the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a joint...

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Finding craters, speaking out against anti-science policies, preventing asteroid impacts, making art -- these are all great ways to make a difference....

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Beneath the elegant halls of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris is the fossil skeleton of one of the Pleistocene's most formidable predators: Smilodon, the celebrated--and slightly misleadingly named--sabre-toothed cat.With its ...

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On the implications of total Mead-Powell storage reaching record lows: The big questions that are implied by where we're at are ones that absolutely need to be addressed, but they're not going to be addressed now. I mean, we can't even have...

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Yes folks, we have finally reached the Volcano World Cup final. After 48 countries and over a month of matches, we are down to two countries. Thanks everyone for voting and now you get to decide who walks away with the Cup! Finals: Japan v. Méxic...

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Beneath the serene landscapes we inhabit, the Earth's crust is a battleground of constant, immense, and invisible tectonic forces. While humanity typically only notices this deep-seated stress when it violently releases in the form of an earthquake and volcanoes, these forces have always been shaping the structural bedrock of our planet. Understanding this hidden architecture is one of the most vital and formidable tasks in modern geosciences. Recently, researchers Oliver Heidbach and Mojtaba Rajabi published a landmark paper in the journal Solid Earth where they detail the 2025 release of the World Stress Map (WSM).

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The Rovuma Basin evolved from Early Jurassic rifting into a passive margin by the Mid-Cretaceous, followed by significant clastic infill through the Cretaceous and Tertiary. Uplift associated with the early Paleogene East African Rift System drove substan­tial sediment supply, feeding deepwater channel systems and fan complexes. Progressive sediment loading and gravity-driven deltaic tectonics led to...

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The Berkeley Earth surface temperature project provides monhly averages of high temperature, and high temperature anomaly (how different it is from "nominal"), on an equal-area grid over all the land areas on Earth. I computed, for each year and ...

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Air pollution expert Dan Westervelt discusses this summer's wildfires and resulting air quality in New York City and beyond....

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AGU serves as a pathway for scientists to disseminate their research to colleagues and the public through publications, conferences, and collaborations with communities, universities, and NGOs throughout the globe. Our 24 top quality research journals, including Geophysical Research Letters and Earth's Future and the dedicated professionals who sustain them play a vital role in ensuring high...

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"Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations. You slur over work of the utmost finesse a...

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Imagine. You are being put in charge of planning for a future major volcanic eruption. All you have is an incomplete list of volcanoes in the world, some experience of past eruptions, and a few volcanologists as consultants. The politician who gave y...

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Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis This story begins some 125 million years ago on the lush floodplains of what is now the Isle of Wight, back in the Cretaceous.Forget the cool, windswept English coastline of today. This was a warm, subtropical worl...

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The Eastern Pacific is roaring ahead. Now the Atlantic is waking up--and the season's peak could pack a bigger punch closer to land.

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It is summer conference season once again, and following the British Planetary Science Conference in June, various member of the group are presenting their work at other conferences this summer. This year's Goldschmidt conference is taking place Mo...

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The project team of a recent visit to the study basin in central Taiwan. BGS © UKRI.

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Arguably Iceland's most iconic artist, Björk often draws on the island's geologically active terrain as metaphor and mood. Across her ten studio albums, two stand out for how deeply they connect human emotion with natural processes: Biophilia (2011) and Vulnicura (2015). Biophilia is analytical and curious, framing natural forces through scientific-like lenses. Vulnicura, in contrast, is raw and personal, using geological metaphors to chart the emotional devastation of heartbreak.

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Introduction When people hear the word „volcano", they usually think of a magmatic volcano with impressive pyroclastic eruptions or lava flows. However, mud volcanoes are different. Mud volcanoes erupt what we call mud breccias, a mixture of gas,...

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Papua New Guinea (PNG) rarely features in the E&P headlines, but in fact, the country has a lot to offer when it comes to the exploration scene. TotalEnergies and partner Petronas are likely to be drilling PNG's first deepwa­ter well, Mailu-1, later this year, target­ing a carbonate reef, which has the po­tential to be a...

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By Okunowo Oluwafemi Olutayo, AGU Voices for Science International Fellow As Earth scientists, we spend countless hours studying the Earth's systems, collecting data, and developing solutions to environmental challenges. Yet one question continues to shape my work: How do we ensure that scientific knowledge reaches the people whose everyday decisions determine the health of our environment?

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My Estonian friend and colleague Olev Vinn led a team reviewing the ecological innovation of organisms encrusting the interiors of mollusk shells in the Ordovician. It is yet another example of the extraordinary diversification of marine organisms in this period. The image above is a reconstruction of bryozoans and cornulitids in an empty snail shell on an Ordovician seafloor. Our paper is just out as early access in Scientific Reports (Vinn et al., 2026).

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Mike Tidwell, climate activist and founder of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, posits that, if you were to throw a dart at a spinning globe, no matter where the dart punctured the surface of the globe, that actual spot on the Earth would have a...

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