Antarctic tourism is just one source of emissions that are speeding up regional ice melt. Credit: Matt S./Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND ...

Microbial communities in streambed sediments are thought to play a crucial role in the removal of nutrients and pollutants, but removal is a combination of both biological and physical processes.

Recent radio observations reveal a new mode of initial lightning development in the form of continuous initial breakdown burst of several kilometers in length at high altitudes within thunderstorms.

The geosciences have a steep language learning curve. Diving into a subfield requires learning jargon to describe a bevy of abstract concepts, niche meanings of otherwise familiar terms, and ...

As a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the 1980s, Mark Serreze studied sea ice in the Beaufort Gyre, a current in the Arctic Ocean just north of Canada. He used a network ...

This year, AGU’s Annual Meeting is taking place in Washington, D.C., on the cusp of a new presidential administration in the United States, an administration whose policies will have far ...

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Be and 26Al concentrations in river sand reveal an increase in erosion rate in the Brazilian Highlands consistent with the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, a major climatic shift that occurred about 1 ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

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