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 ...

Sediment cores extracted from deep under the Aegean Sea reveal the timing of explosive eruptions of Kolumbo Volcano and a potential link to neighboring Santorini. Kolumbo is a little-known underwater ...

The researchers found more than 500 pieces of opaque black “space glass” in varying shapes in Brazil. Credit: Álvaro Crósta For the first time in South America and only the sixth time in history, ...

LHS 1903 is a small red M dwarf star orbited by a rocky planet and two gaseous planets. In a recent study, scientists used the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS satellite to investigate a fourth planet ...

Geostationary satellites can collect frequent measurements of temperatures and other characteristics of Earth’s land surfaces, allowing them to detect rapid changes and disturbances. Land surface ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.