Borehole distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) offers a more precise way to measure small earthquakes, if appropriate care is ...

A 20-year monitoring study in the discontinuous permafrost zone of Nunavik, Canada documents changing ground thermal dynamics and associated thaw subsidence.

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Forest soils store an estimated 40% of the world’s terrestrial carbon, but estimates suggest that around ...

A new method for handling satellite aerosol observations boosts simulation accuracy, with potential benefits for weather and climate forecasting.

Satellite image draped onto the Google Earth DEM for the middle section of the Langtung Lirung landslide. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 25 August 2026. Simon Gascoin ...

When corals get too hot, the algae that feed them can disappear, leaving them bleached. Blocking the Sun could help.

Examination of Planet Labs satellite imagery before the collapse of the slope suggests that there were surprisingly few signs of incipient failure. Given the discussion about the potential for ...

Tollund Man is the name given to the startlingly well-preserved remains of a man who lived the in the 5th century BCE and was unearthed in a Danish peat bog in 1950. The anaerobic conditions of the ...

Wildfires may have allowed for the transition of the Antarctic landscape from temperate rainforest to peat bog by keeping the landscape open. Credit: J. McKay, CC-BY 4.0 Written into an approximately ...

All around the world, extreme conditions have kept ancient human remains shockingly well preserved.

Once smoke is generated, chemical reactions reshape its gaseous and particulate constituents, altering what travels downwind ...