More than 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers are still searching for new ways to tackle disastrous ...
New evidence from the Natural Hazards Commission – Toka Tū Ake (NHC) shows that landslides are now New Zealand's most costly ...
A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples found that largely unmonitored industrial compounds are widespread ...
Between 2000 and 2020, 42% of tree lines around the world crept upward, largely because of climate change. But 25% moved ...
New research investigates seismicity in South Africa’s Karoo Basin, seen here. Credit: Inka Stinka/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Roughly the size of Texas, the Karoo Basin of central western South Africa is ...
NOAA’s hurricane outlook forecasts the likelihood of tropical storms such as 2015’s Hurricane Jimena, seen here. Credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 In its annual forecast of the upcoming ...
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may drop a widely-used future emissions scenario as it develops its seventh climate report. In part due to the dropping cost of renewable ...
Tree branches, tree trunks, mud, and building materials were deposited by a debris flow after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in Colorado. Credit: USGS/Jason Kean, Public Domain Months after wildfires ...
A render of the completed Cheekeye Debris Barrier. Image via the District of Squamish. In British Columbia a CAN$115 million project is almost complete to mitigate the risk posed by debris flows to ...
An archive of pilot whale tissue collected around the Faroe Islands has provided scientists with a decades-long record of how different per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulate in remote ...