In the Yukon River Delta, snow and ice are essential for Indigenous communities, providing travel routes and supporting hunting, fishing, and cultural practices. Credit: NASA image courtesy Jeff ...

Satellite images are revealing the scale of the destruction in Sri Lanka caused by landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah at the end of November 2025. At the end of November 2025, a “weak” tropical ...

In the coming decades, climate change is likely to lead to a loss of sea ice in and an influx of warmer water to the Arctic Ocean, affecting the ocean’s vertical circulation. Brown et al. recently ...

A new community science project brings together the Cowichan Tribes, the provincial government of British Columbia, and scientists to study the Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo' (Koksilah River). Credit: David ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that used seismographic instruments to probe the still largely unstudied ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says. Pictures of a rocky outcrop snapped ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged Uranus, its rings, and several of its 29 moons with its Near-Infrared Camera on 18 December 2023. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The solar system’s oddball ...

Dymer Creek (foreground) flows into the Chesapeake Bay near the town of White Stone, Va. The pH of coastal waterways such as the Chesapeake is influenced by both the acidification of the ocean and the ...

London’s River Thames is seen here during a 2004 flood. Credit: Pointillist/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Water levels are creeping upward on shorelines across the world, and decisionmaking systems ...

The aftermath of the 11 November 2025 landslide at Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan Province, China. Image captured by Blacksky and released via Twitter. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is ...

Ancient Mars boasted abundant water, but the cold and dry conditions of today make liquid water on the Red Planet seem far less probable. However, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere ...