Researchers suggest the earthquake left more people exposed to disease-carrying mosquitos and climate variability during the 2014–2016 El Niño created more favorable mosquito breeding grounds.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Laboratories outside Japan have validated the results. Marine radioactivity levels from the nuclear disaster have fallen, but questions remain years after the meltdown.Read More »
Craig Fugate says the United States has an opportunity to rebuild more resiliently if Congress doesn’t simply provide relief money but also requires rebuilding to higher standards.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
Technological improvements, including an advanced thermal protection system and innovative solar arrays, have helped to get this mission off the drawing board.Read More »Biogeosciences
GeoDeepDive combines library science, computer science, and geoscience to dive into repositories of published text, tables, and figures and return valuable information.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
In a seismically quiet segment of Alaska’s subduction zone lie faults with structures similar to those of the system that caused the deadly Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Read More »Planetary Sciences
Using 8 years of data collected via spacecraft, scientists produce hindcasts of plasma eruptions from the Sun. These will help improve forecasts.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Archaeologists digging in Martinique chanced upon the first tsunami deposit from the earthquake found in the New World. The tsunami left a strong trace, it seems, because the wave went up a river.Read More »
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