For centuries, Indigenous peoples have worked to live in harmony with fire. Can integrating such cultural practices into contemporary wildfire management help prevent catastrophic wildfires?Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Humans may be in a new geologic epoch—the Anthropocene—but different groups define its start at varied times. When should the Anthropocene have begun?Read More »
Insights from a 13-year monitoring program of Sierra Negra—one of the many volcanoes that dot the Galápagos Islands—shed light on the volcanic evolution of basaltic eruption.Read More »Climate Change
Researchers hope that a network of highly consistent climate-observing sites will resolve long-standing issues with climatological data.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Researchers have created thin, levitating disks that could be used to study the mesosphere, a layer of Earth’s atmosphere that’s difficult to reach with conventional flyers.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Herbivorous dinosaurs migrated north across Pangea beginning about 214 million years ago, coincident with a downturn in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Night-shining clouds can be diagnostic tools to better understand how human activity is changing the meteorology of the mesosphere.Read More »Education
