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Gold specks on quartz
Posted inNews

Earthquakes May Lace Quartz Veins with Gold

by Carolyn Wilke 8 October 202419 December 2024

Seismic activity may kick off chemical reactions that seed nuggets of gold.

Mount Everest seen from far away
Posted inNews

A Pirate River May Be Giving Mount Everest a Boost

by Nathaniel Scharping 30 September 202430 September 2024

Rapid erosion can cause mountains to rise—even the world’s tallest peak.

Bubbles bubble up in the ocean.
Posted inNews

Model Suggests Undersea Mountains Help Mix the Global Ocean

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 24 September 202424 September 2024

Seamounts may play a significant role in ocean turbulence and the upwelling of deep waters.

The orange glow from erupting lava illuminates the area around the summit of Kīlauea volcano under a star-filled night sky.
Posted inScience Updates

An Unprecedented Experiment to Map Kīlauea’s Summit Magma System

by Roger Denlinger, Daniel R. H. O’Connell, Guoqing Lin, Steve Roecker and Ninfa Bennington 18 September 202423 September 2024

Dozens of researchers deployed nearly 2,000 seismic stations—and a T-Rex—to better illuminate subsurface structure and magma storage below the summit of the highly active volcano.

Photo of the Himalayas.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Sediment Dampens the Impact of Glaciation on Cenozoic Denudation

by Ann Rowan 9 September 20244 September 2024

Rates of continental-scale sediment flux and denudation are similar between glacial and interglacial periods when the aggradation of glacier-eroded sediment inhibits fluvial erosion downstream.

Small brown structures against a backdrop of tall, snowy mountain peaks and a blue sky
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mantle Upwelling May Have Triggered Morocco Earthquake

by Rebecca Owen 18 July 202418 July 2024

Researchers glean new information about the deep origins of a deadly event.

A wide, flat area of tan-colored earth, with mountains in the distance. In the foreground, a paler, gray-colored substance appears to overlay the ground. Streaks of the tan-colored ground are visible beneath the gray substance.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracing Millions of Years of Geologic Stress in the Andean Plateau

by Nathaniel Scharping 15 July 202415 July 2024

Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago.

Annotated image showing the speculative main aspects of the 21 June 2024 Sorte debris flow in Switzerland. Base image from Swisstopo.
Posted inThe Landslide Blog

The possible causes of the deadly 21 June 2024 Sorte debris flow in Switzerland

by Dave Petley 26 June 202426 June 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland has collected and published online aerial imagery of the site of the deadly 21 June 2024 debris flow in Switzerland, which killed three people. The […]

Part of the Madi River in Nepal, with forested mountains in the distance
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Forests, Water, and Livelihoods in the Lesser Himalaya

by L. Adrian Bruijnzeel, Ge Sun, Jun Zhang, Krishna Raj Tiwari and Lu Hao 15 May 202424 March 2025

Complex changes in land use, land cover, climate, and demographics are combining to stress water security for millions of people in the region.

A mountain in the distance next to a body of water
Posted inNews

Middle-of-the-Road Mountains Form the Best Carbon Sinks

by Martin J. Kernan 26 April 20242 May 2024

Silicate rock weathering has a sweet spot: erosion that isn’t too fast or too slow.

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