Carved over millennia by the pressure and motion of glacial ice, the valley walls cradling the Tracy Arm fjord in southeast Alaska continue to be reshaped. In summer 2025, following the rapid retreat of South Sawyer Glacier, a large landslide sent rock careening into the fjord, altering the wider landscape in a matter of minutes.

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Campbell Award winner Marina Saguar Urquiola is helping to solve climate change through adaptation finance....

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A thin sliver of Earth's edge is brightly illuminated against the vast darkness of space in this April 3, 2026, image taken during the Artemis II mission. Artemis II was the first crewed flight in a series of missions to test NASA's human deep space capabilities, paving the way for future lunar surface missions.

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Over the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, winds can whip around the globe relatively unimpeded by land. Intrepid sailors termed these southern latitudes the Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties, and Screaming Sixties on account of the strong prevailing winds.

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I was sitting on the front porch early this afternoon with my eyes on the street when the postman come up the front walk holding a book-shaped package. I walked up to him, reached out, and held it in my hands.

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The study also points to broader lessons: as glaciers retreat in warming regions, the risk of related hazards can increase, and improved monitoring may help reduce some of those dangers....

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A new "X-ray dot" found by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory - which could look like this artist's illustration released on April 28, 2026 - could explain what the hundreds or potentially thousands of these objects are.

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Shivelyuch (also called Shiveluch), the most northerly active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. On a near-daily basis, satellites detect new signs of activity within its horseshoe-shaped caldera, including thermal anomalies, hot avalanches and debris flows, and ash deposits that darken the surrounding landscape.

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For my birthday this year, my wife bought me the newish Lego kit Natural History Museum 10326. (Well: actually she bought me a Chinese knock-off for 1/3 the price, but that's not the point.) It's a lovely kit and I had a great time building it.

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This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and, after waving the arm and running the drill a few times, finally detached the rock. The imagery showing the entire process was captured by the black-and-white hazard cameras on the front of Curiosity's chassis and by navigation cameras on its mast, or head.

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Columbia Climate School is thrilled to announce that Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft, will deliver the keynote address at the Climate School's Class Day ceremony....

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Nota bene: A guest post from friends of Inkstain John Berggren and Kevin Wheeler John Berggren (Regional Policy Manager, Western Resource Advocates) Kevin Wheeler (Principle, Water Balance Consulting) 5/5/2026 As everyone is well aware, the snowp...

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Volcanic activity takes on many forms in western El Salvador. The land near the city of Ahuachapán is pockmarked with craters and covered with recent lava flows. Meanwhile, a geothermal field feeds geysers, heats mineral pools, and powers a long-operating energy plant. The area is part of a volcanic landscape that stretches more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) along the Pacific coast from Guatemala to Panama, composing the Central American Volcanic Arc. 

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The primary goal of the FLAG SAG is to develop a coherent framework for comparing and assessing gamma-ray mission architectures. Within this framework, the SAG will:

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Kaplan studies the ways ice sheets, mountain glaciers, climates and landscapes changed in the past....

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To say something moves at a glacial pace is to imply sluggish, unhurried change. But what transpired over the course of 15 months at Antarctica's Hektoria Glacier was uncharacteristically quick. Between January 2022 and March 2023, the glacier lost about 25 kilometers (15 miles) in length. That included a two-month period in which the terminus retreated more than 8 kilometers (5 miles)--the highest rate of grounded glacial ice loss observed in modern history.

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President Donald Trump may soon feel the need to "blockade" U. S. crude oil exports after those exports hit a record high recently, a trend which, if it continues, will increase the price U. S. consumers pay for gasoline, diesel a...

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Going to hyperspace? Not exactly...George Lucas had it wrong. No, I'm not talking about the prequels to Star Wars! It was something much earlier. People could be forgiven for not knowing this, but Star Wars was not George Lucas's first successful fil...

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Episode description:  In this bonus episode, go behind the scenes of key moments from Artemis II with NASA experts who made them possible. Engineers who launched the rocket describe the hours-long process that led to a successful liftoff. The leader...

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Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center

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Annika Bellot focuses on international law and decarbonization efforts to help save small island states like Dominica, where she grew up....

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NASA announced Friday Janet Petro, center director for the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is retiring.

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The EmFlume1.5 is great for explaining common hydraulic phenomena in rivers. This demonstration introduces viewers to the transitions between supercritical and subcritical flow, and vice versa, and how they create some of the dynamic, impactful, and potentially dangerous points in river systems. Check it out here!

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With so many worlds to explore and so much to learn about our own, funding NASA is absolutely essential....

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Tucker Davidson of Audubon wrote a lovely piece about slowing down and listening to, and looking for, the birds:

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