The aftermath of the landslide that caused the 2022 high speed train crash at Rongjiang. From Zhang et al. (2022). The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world ...

Apollo 17 lunar sample 72255 was brought back from the Moon’s surface in 1972. An analysis of the composition and magnetism of Apollo samples recently shed new light on a long-standing question about ...

Most airline passengers have no idea how little of the ocean floor beneath them has been mapped. Credit: nateemee/iStock.com It has been 3 years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, and ...

Stable auroral red (SAR) arcs and strong thermal emission velocity enhancement (STEVE) phenomena are optical structures that have been detected in the subauroral upper atmosphere. Whereas aurorae are ...

Climate change affects plants on the surface, the soil below, and interactions between them. Shown here is a soil profile from a grassland in Iceland. Credit: Fabrizzio Protti Sánchez Soil ecosystems ...

This simulation shows what it might look like to dive into a lunar pit and explore a connected lava tube. Credit: Conor Marsh, University of Manchester/ ESA The Moon’s surface is pockmarked with more ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor. Shrimp, skate, sole, cod ...

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 ...

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 ...