The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Nepal is one of the most landslide prone countries on earth, a ...

Ice caves like this one at Erebus Glacier Tongue in Antarctica inspired the design of ice domes modeled for use on Mars. Credit: Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps As Earth’s population continues to ...

Apollo 17 lunar sample 72255 was brought back from the Moon’s surface in 1972. An analysis of the composition and magnetism of Apollo samples recently shed new light on a long-standing question about ...

This illustration of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube depicts them just prior to impact at the Didymos binary system on 26 September ...

Most airline passengers have no idea how little of the ocean floor beneath them has been mapped. Credit: nateemee/iStock.com It has been 3 years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, and ...

Stable auroral red (SAR) arcs and strong thermal emission velocity enhancement (STEVE) phenomena are optical structures that have been detected in the subauroral upper atmosphere. Whereas aurorae are ...

The aftermath of the landslide that caused the 2022 high speed train crash at Rongjiang. From Zhang et al. (2022). The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world ...

The Cerrado savanna in Brazil is the second-largest biome in South America and stores as much carbon as 20% of the Amazon rainforest, according to new research. Credit: Andre Dib The Cerrado savanna ...

Climate change affects plants on the surface, the soil below, and interactions between them. Shown here is a soil profile from a grassland in Iceland. Credit: Fabrizzio Protti Sánchez Soil ecosystems ...

The surface waters of warm western boundary currents are poor in nutrients. Therefore, intrusions of these nutrient-depleted water into the region are considered to reduce biological production.

This simulation shows what it might look like to dive into a lunar pit and explore a connected lava tube. Credit: Conor Marsh, University of Manchester/ ESA The Moon’s surface is pockmarked with more ...