Climate change models simulate historical changes and predict future trends in a variety of phenomena, including land cover types like these rain forests and coastal mountain ranges in South America.

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An algal bloom in the Gulf of Alaska in April 2017. Credit: NASA/Goddard/NPP, CC BY 2.0 Smelting metals and burning coal vaporize small amounts of iron. Some of this iron wafts out of East Asia and ...

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The Flint, Mich., water crisis began when state-appointed emergency managers switched the city’s drinking water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River in April 2014. Credit: State of ...

An olive tree in Ni’lin, a town in the West Bank, caught fire after a tear gas grenade detonated during a Palestinian demonstration against land confiscation by Israel in 2016. Credit: יורם שורק via ...

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The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. As the SW. Monsoon in South Asia withdraws, the landslide season in ...

Barium clouds and auroral arcs are seen in this still frame from a video shot from Sodankylä, Finland, with a digital camera at 18:29:44 UTC, 15 seconds after the last barium release of the Barium ...

Researchers studied the movement of dust devils on Mars to learn more about wind on the Red Planet. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO In 2020, the scientists and engineers behind NASA’s InSight ...

Geophysics is a powerful tool for understanding how our planet works. It enables us to connect complex real-world phenomena with fundamental physical laws, deduce the nature of otherwise inaccessible ...

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 ...