Science News

New explanation for Siberia’s permafrost craters

September 26, 2024


Slow-moving landslides a growing, but ignored, threat to mountain communities

September 17, 2024


Summer storms are stronger and more frequent over urban areas

September 10, 2024


New research sinks an old theory for the doldrums, a low-wind equatorial region that stranded sailors for centuries

September 9, 2024


US water reservoirs are shrinking and becoming less reliable

August 22, 2024


Press registration open for the 2024 AGU Annual Meeting

August 21, 2024


Roofing highways with solar panels could decrease carbon emissions and improve road safety

August 6, 2024


Climate change will bring more turbulence to flights in the Northern Hemisphere

July 25, 2024


Half of world’s lakes are less resilient to disturbance than they used to be

June 25, 2024


At least one in four US residential yards exceeds new EPA lead soil level guideline

June 18, 2024


Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not the same one Cassini observed in 1600s

June 17, 2024


Satellite “megaconstellations” may jeopardize recovery of ozone hole

June 12, 2024


WaterSciCon24: Press registration and housing are open

May 30, 2024


Warming climate intensifies flash droughts worldwide

May 21, 2024


Wildfires in wet African forests have doubled in recent decades

May 2, 2024


Astrobiology Science Conference 2024 press tips and events

April 30, 2024


Warming climate is putting more metals into Colorado’s mountain streams

April 23, 2024


World’s oases threatened by desertification, even as humans expand them

April 22, 2024


Humans converted at least 250,000 acres of estuaries to cities, farms in last 35 years

April 9, 2024


Eclipse science next week at the 2024 Triennial Earth-Sun Summit

April 4, 2024


Triennial Earth-Sun Summit 2024 (Eclipse special!): Tips for media

April 2, 2024


Astrobiology Science Conference 2024 press registration now open

March 28, 2024


Alaska Native tribes take lead on shellfish toxin testing where state falls short

March 21, 2024


Emergency atmospheric geoengineering wouldn’t save the oceans

February 29, 2024


Climate change could push bowhead whales to cross paths with shipping traffic

February 21, 2024


Gulf corals still suffering more than a decade after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

February 19, 2024


The historical resilience of the Bird’s Foot Delta wetlands could help future management

February 18, 2024


Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024: press event schedule and tipsheets available 

February 16, 2024


A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool

February 13, 2024


Seattle fault may have origins in an ancient tear in the continent

February 6, 2024


Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 program online; housing deadline approaching

January 17, 2024


Titan’s “magic islands” likely honeycombed hydrocarbon icebergs

January 4, 2024


Fleeing drought, vulnerable populations face flood risk in most African countries

December 21, 2023


North America’s first people may have arrived by sea ice highway

December 14, 2023


Great frigatebirds wearing backpacks map the atmosphere

December 12, 2023


San Francisco’s airport runways are among the fastest-sinking in the nation

December 10, 2023


AGU Annual Meeting 2023: Press event schedule and tipsheets now available

December 7, 2023


National Climate Assessment reporting continues at AGU23 in San Francisco

November 14, 2023


Some of today’s earthquakes may be aftershocks from quakes in the 1800s

November 13, 2023


Monitoring of natural gas compressor stations underestimates health risks to nearby communities

November 2, 2023


Bitcoin mining has “very worrying” impacts on land and water, not only carbon

October 24, 2023


Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 press registration now open

October 17, 2023


AGU 2023 Annual Meeting program now online

October 10, 2023


Scientists figured out what causes Earth’s strongest lightning

September 28, 2023


As Earth heats up, rain pours down

September 14, 2023


100-year floods could occur yearly by end of 21st century

September 12, 2023


Temperature-related deaths could rise five-fold by end of century in US

September 7, 2023


Disparities in who dwells behind US levees

September 5, 2023


AGU 2023 press registration now open

August 30, 2023


“Planting” rocks in farms, along with emissions reductions, could help meet key IPCC carbon removal goal

August 14, 2023


Earth’s most ancient impact craters are disappearing

August 1, 2023


Petrified trees reveal Yellowstone geyser’s ongoing battle with drought

July 25, 2023


Colorado River Basin has lost water equal to Lake Mead due to climate change

July 24, 2023


Warmer weather makes venomous snake bites more likely, especially in spring

July 11, 2023


Tonga’s Hunga eruption produced the most intense lightning ever recorded

June 20, 2023


We’ve pumped so much groundwater that we’ve nudged the Earth’s spin

June 15, 2023


AGU’s new wildfire special collection showcases a huge range of research and discovery

June 13, 2023


Hazardous clear-air turbulence up 55% from 1979, study shows

June 8, 2023


No-till revolution could stop Midwest topsoil loss in its tracks

May 25, 2023


Indigenous communities adapt as climate change upends ecological calendars globally

May 9, 2023


West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated far inland, re-advanced since last Ice Age

May 1, 2023