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

As the climate warms, corals around the world are facing increasingly frequent marine heat waves that lead to widespread coral bleaching. Scientists are racing to protect the world’s reefs with a ...

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 ...

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

By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, ...

Chariklo, a nonspherical asteroid between Saturn and Uranus, was the first asteroid found to have a ring system. Credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris, CC BY 4.0 Tiny asteroid Chariklo, floating ...

Warming surface waters and increased stratification result in uneven loss of dissolved oxygen across the Pacific basin that ...

In Alaska’s boreal forests, a negative feedback loop between wildfires and vegetation plays an important role in governing ...