New observations and simulations capture the physics at play across each of the three main ionospheric regions.

Using coupled isotopes, a new study shows that a class of economically important granites are derived by sediment melting without mantle input.

A study measured methane flow from more than 450 nonproducing wells across Canada, but thousands more remain unevaluated.

Twenty years of data from around the world show that areas that are not too dry and not too wet are most conducive to ...

Monitoring and forecasting the movement of volcanic clouds is key to mitigating the impacts on communities, infrastructure, and air traffic.

The first person of color and first Earth scientist to serve as director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science ...

New research shows that unplanted agricultural lands are behind most of the state’s anthropogenic dust events.

Contrary to conventional wisdom that glaciers just carve landscapes, they can also form low-relief surfaces by sheltering ...

A new framework aims to better equip scientists, communities, and decisionmakers to characterize data and rapidly respond to ...

Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Southern Oscillation’s global reach and complex ocean–atmosphere interactions across timescales, two simple, elegant equations capture its key dynamics and defining properties.