Frederic Edwin Church's 1865 arctic landscape, Aurora Borealis, is a beautiful depiction of nature. It might also be a memorial reflection on the end of the war.Read More »Biogeosciences
When a nearby volcano unexpectedly erupted in the midst of a behavioral study of Andean condors in Argentina, the researchers scrambled to observe disruption to condors' lives. Oddly, there was none.Read More »Natural Hazards
Impending renovations presented at a conference on transportation systems and climate extremes would keep hurricane-driven waters out of subsurface transit tunnels.Read More »Planetary Sciences
NASA's low-cost space telescope opened up a universe of possibilities for scientists who scour space in search of planets—and possibly life.Read More »Ocean Sciences
In speeches and planned visits to a threatened village and a receding glacier, President Obama makes the case that global warming is happening now and warrants immediate action.Read More »Ocean Sciences
For decades, scientists have probed Earth's remote mantle by analyzing how seismic waves of distant earthquakes pass through it. But we are still challenged by the technique's limitations.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Invasions, armed conflict, sanctions, and economic distress correlate with cleaner air in high-resolution satellite data that reveal air quality at the individual city level.Read More »
