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 ...

Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. In 2001, Clark ...

Two doughnut-shaped regions of high-energy particles make up the Van Allen radiation belts. Scientists discovered that very low frequency radio transmissions from Earth may help to create an ...

Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...

Background colors show the CFC-11 pressure anomaly from a 30-year simulation using the MALTA model. The year-to-year variations are caused by the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), a natural ...

This conceptual illustration shows the contrasting responses of a low-latitude highlands ecosystem in China to a drought versus a heat wave. The image at left depicts the severe ecosystem collapse and ...

Landslides on the southern side of Lake Takengon in Sumatra triggered by the November 2025 rains. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 30 November 2025. The Landslide Blog ...

High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...

Astronomer Johann Caspar Staudacher sketched these sunspot drawings of long-lasting extreme magnetic storm activity in 1770. Credit: Hayakawa et al., 2017, https ...

Rock glaciers are debris landforms found in many mountain ranges on Earth. They represent the movement of permanently frozen ground over long periods of time and can be used to understand how climate ...

An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...

Two observers in southeast Alaska log monitoring data. Credit: Lee House, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card 2025 NOAA released this year’s Arctic Report Card on 16 December at AGU’s Annual Meeting 2025 in New ...