Simulations of the historical quake raise new concerns: A similar event in the future could cause a devastating tsunami in Chile’s most populated coastal region.Read More »Natural Hazards
The deep seafloor could provide humans with supplies of valuable metals, but opinion is divided as to whether sustainable exploitation is possible and worth the ecological and economic risk.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Modeling Earth’s near-space environment and its electrical currents is challenging. A new study compares how four different models stack up against observations.Read More »Mathematical Geophysics
A novel interface allows users of MATLAB and GMT, two software packages widely used by the geoscience community, to simultaneously harness the capabilities of both products.Read More »
After geomagnetic storms, Earth’s corona abruptly increases in hydrogen density. For the first time, serendipitous observations have allowed researchers to investigate why.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
A long-term study in Switzerland reveals the promise of a new method to determine isotopic composition of the potent greenhouse gas.Read More »Ocean Sciences
