Students discuss the design of a CubeSat called INSPIRESat-1 during a meeting of the International Satellite Program in Research and Education (INSPIRE) held at the University of Colorado Boulder in ...

Heavy winter rainfall has triggered further movement at this infamous landslide site in California, causing damage to properties and infrastructure The Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex in Rancho ...

The number of fatal landslides in 2026 to the end of February was considerably above both the long term mean and the year with the highest total, 2024. To bring everything back up to date, I am ...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and Earth science research laboratories, is “under attack,” a new lawsuit alleges. Credit: Richard Johnson, Flickr, CC ...

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 ...

In groundwater flow and transport modeling, aquifer characterization is still a hot topic. Ultimately, it means giving each grid cell in a numerical model hydraulic property values. This is a daunting ...

Surface meltwater ponding and drainage in the Greenland Ice Sheet is analyzed at high spatial and temporal resolution through SkySat imagery and deep learning. Liquid water from melting Greenland ice ...

In 2025, I recorded 663 global fatal landslides, costing 5,091 lives. I have fallen a little behind with providing updates on global fatal landslides – a consequence of the pressures associated with ...

The bushfires in Australia are a never-ending story of loss, tragedy, and record-setting moments. The fires have claimed the lives of at least 27 people and countless animals and destroyed 2,000 homes ...

A research team could get models of Earth’s magnetic fields (left) to match real-world observations (right) only when they included the mantle’s BLOBS in simulations run on the ARCHER2 supercomputer.

Dust storms like this one deliver mineral dust to the Greenland Ice Sheet—and the dark-colored algae that are contributing to its melting. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery In the ...