• About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
  • AGU.org
  • Career Center
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
  • About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
Skip to content
  • AGU.org
  • Career Center
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
Eos

Eos

Science News by AGU

Support Eos
Sign Up for Newsletter
  • About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos

history

Scientists aboard the R/V Sonne profiled the seafloor and subsurface near Ritter Island, north of New Guinea, in 2016.
Posted inScience Updates

An 1888 Volcanic Collapse Becomes a Benchmark for Tsunami Models

by A. Micallef, S. F. L. Watt, C. Berndt, M. Urlaub, S.Brune, I. Klaucke, C. Böttner, J. Karstens and J. Elger 10 October 201718 November 2022

When volcanic mountains slide into the sea, they trigger tsunamis. How big are these waves, and how far away can they do damage? Ritter Island provides some answers.

Posted inOpinions

To Understand Future Solar Activity, One Has to Know the Past

by A. A. Pevtsov and F. Clette 29 September 201718 January 2023

Short-term funding strategies present serious problems for programs like solar activity studies, where observations and analysis span decades or longer.

Giant African land snail in an adult hand
Posted inNews

Giant Snails’ Century-Old Shells Recorded Monsoon Rainfall

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 September 201718 October 2022

Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.

Copper engraving of Lisbon, Portugal, during 1755 earthquake.
Posted inNews

Caribbean Sediment Traced to 1755 Portuguese Quake and Tsunami

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 19 September 201731 October 2024

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.

Ruins of the Temple of the Jaguar under the stars.
Posted inNews

Ancient Maya May Have Foreseen Meteor Showers

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 September 201721 October 2021

Modern astronomical techniques have uncovered clues to a possible facet of Mayan astronomy from nearly 2 millennia ago not found in surviving records.

Researchers reassess the magnitude of an earthquake that shook Chile in 1730.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tsunami Records Show Increased Hazards for Chile’s Central Coast

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 24 July 20178 December 2022

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.

Strips and bands of color off the western coast of Australia indicate the MH370 search area.
Posted inNews

Seafloor Data from Lost Airliner Search Are Publicly Released

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 21 July 201726 September 2023

Detailed maps of the bottom of the Indian Ocean reveal deep canyons and landslides but no wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing in 2014.

An aurora glows above Tromso, Norway, in 2010.
Posted inNews

Mining Ancient Texts Reveals Clues to Space Weather of Yore

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 24 May 201718 April 2022

Low-latitude sightings of colorful hues in the sky likely to have been auroras indicate powerful geomagnetic storms buffeted Earth when some old chronicles were written, researchers report.

A “dead cart” depicted in an antique engraving.
Posted inNews

Plague Bug May Have Lurked in Medieval England Between Outbreaks

Bas den Hond, Science Writer by Bas den Hond 8 May 201723 March 2023

A new analysis of climate records in England and Europe’s Low Countries suggests that the disease-causing bacterium persisted in rodents between recurrences in people.

Kate Scharer examining sediments disrupted by the San Andreas Fault near Desert Hot Springs, California.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Catching Glimpses of Centuries-Old Earthquakes

by S. Witman 5 May 201728 October 2022

Researchers in the western United States survey the earthquakes that have torn up California for the past millennium.

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 20 21 22 23 24 … 27 Older posts
A view of a Washington, D.C., skyline from the Potomac River at night. The Lincoln Memorial (at left) and the Washington Monument (at right) are lit against a purple sky. Over the water of the Potomac appear the text “#AGU24 coverage from Eos.”

Features from AGU Publications

Research Spotlights

Coherent, Not Chaotic, Migration in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River

2 July 20252 July 2025
Editors' Highlights

The Mid-20th Century Winter Cooling in the Eastern U.S. Explained

3 July 20253 July 2025
Editors' Vox

Water Tracks: The Veins of Thawing Landscapes

25 June 202525 June 2025
Eos logo at left; AGU logo at right

About Eos
ENGAGE
Awards
Contact

Advertise
Submit
Career Center
Sitemap

© 2025 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved Powered by Newspack