A researcher uses housing and poverty data to identify locations where children are more likely to be exposed to lead.

Borehole distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) offers a more precise way to measure small earthquakes, if appropriate care is ...

Satellite carbon dioxide observations detect more carbon-cycle extremes than ground stations but still miss many events and underestimate their magnitude.

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

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Forest soils store an estimated 40% of the world’s terrestrial carbon, but estimates suggest that around ...

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

A 20-year monitoring study in the discontinuous permafrost zone of Nunavik, Canada documents changing ground thermal dynamics and associated thaw subsidence.

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

When corals get too hot, the algae that feed them can disappear, leaving them bleached. Blocking the Sun could help.

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

Heavy rainfall in Nepal since Thursday has triggered 285 landslides, leading to 15 fatalities with a further three people missing and three people injured. Over the weekend, Nepal (and Sikkim in India ...

In Japan, record breaking rainfall associated with Typhoon Dujuan has triggered at least six fatal landslides in the Kanto region. Over the last 24 hours or so, rainfall associated Typhoon Dujuan has ...