The Trump administration has holistically reevaluated the government’s relationship—and how it responds to threats— to the health and welfare of its citizens. The past year was a shock to the U.S.

Tide gauge records at the largest Aleutian port, Unalaska-Dutch Harbor near Unalaska Island, helped scientists research tsunamis in the region. Credit: Mark – stock.adobe.com Providing hazard ...

An American alligator surfaces in a Louisiana bayou. As apex predators, alligators shape wetland ecosystems through both trophic interactions and physical landscape ...

New research adds to the evidence that when inhaled, wildfire smoke pollutants may be more harmful to human health than other forms of pollutants. This smoke plume was generated by the 2016 Rey Fire ...

Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

Snowpacks in places such as this windswept alpine pass in the Front Range of Colorado are difficult to characterize with current remote sensing methods because of cloud cover, complex topography, and ...

Evidence of a massive underwater landslide lurks beneath the seafloor of the Norwegian Sea. Credit: Politikaner/NASA World Wind, Public Domain When it comes to landslides, some of our planet’s largest ...

U.S. Geological Survey Pasadena earthquake response coordinator Sue Hough surveys rocks displaced by the magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake, which struck Southern California in July 2019. New ...

Aurorae such as the southern lights, seen here over Antarctica, show the geomagnetic field in action. Some areas of the field, which shields Earth’s surface from charged solar particles, are stronger ...

Coupling an AI-driven model of the atmosphere with a model of the ocean could help scientists create highly efficient emulations of the entire Earth system. Modelers have demonstrated that artificial ...

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...

The federal government shut down just after midnight on 1 October. Credit: Beth Bagley/AGU Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law ...