• About
  • Special Reports
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Third Pod from the Sun
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
  • AGU.org
  • AGU Publications
    • AGU Journals
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
  • Career Center
  • AGU Blogs
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
  • About
  • Special Reports
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Third Pod from the Sun
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
Skip to content
Eos

Eos

Science News by AGU

Sign Up for Newsletter

science policy

Black freighter at sea with gray, cloudy skies in the background
Posted inNews

Seaports Could Lose $67 Billion Yearly from Natural Disasters

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 2 February 20232 February 2023

Small islands and low-income nations face the largest relative monetary losses to their ports and maritime trade.

Satellite image
Posted inNews

The Role of Insurance in Climate Adaption

by Jenessa Duncombe 1 February 20231 February 2023

New research tests the promise of insurance to harden the U.S. economy to tropical storms.

Aerial view of Earth with part of a satellite visible
Posted inNews

Earth’s Orbit Is About to Get More Crowded

by Sarah Scoles 10 January 202310 January 2023

The military is launching a fleet of small, interconnected satellites to collect data, track missiles, and aim weapons.

Building entrance.
Posted inNews

Twenty Years of NSF Funding Show Racial Disparities

by Jenessa Duncombe 21 December 202221 December 2022

White principal investigators won a disproportionate share of National Science Foundation funding between 1996 and 2016, according to an analysis of public data.

Rows of green leaves and grass grow between the dry stubble of already harvested wheat.
Posted inNews

Satellite Data Reveal Uptick in Cover Cropping on Farms

by Katherine Kornei 20 December 202220 December 2022

Over the course of a decade, farmers growing corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest increased their adoption of cover cropping—a tenet of so-called conservation agriculture—by fourfold.

Una mujer con sombrero planta semilla al frente de la foto, mientras que un grupo de hombres y mujeres hacen lo mismo en el fondo.
Posted inNews

El conocimiento tradicional es esencial para la sustentabilidad en el Amazonas

by Meghie Rodrigues 16 December 202216 December 2022

Durante la COP26, el Panel Científico por la Amazonia enfatiza la necesidad del conocimiento indígena y local para orientar las recomendaciones científicas y políticas.

Satellite image of Earth showing the atmospheric plume blanketing the Pacific after the underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai
Posted inNews

Social Media Posts Reveal Human Responses to Deadly Tongan Eruption

by Erin Martin-Jones 14 December 202214 December 2022

Quantifying human responses to natural disasters could improve preparation for future threats, scientists say.

Aerial view of a solar photovoltaic power generation system on a reservoir in Taiwan.
Posted inNews

Could Floating Solar Panels Help Mitigate Climate Change?

by Sofia Moutinho 9 December 20229 December 2022

“Floatovoltaics” are an emerging technology, but their environmental impacts are still unknown.

A 2017 landslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone, killed an estimated 1,100 residents, largely in informal settlements.
Posted inNews

Protecting Poor Neighborhoods from Landslide Risk

by J. Besl 8 December 202225 January 2023

As low-income, informal settlements bloom in the tropics, their risk of landslides increases. A new modeling tool incorporates urbanization factors to protect the region’s poorest neighborhoods.

Al centro una mujer con un hijab lila está de pie para hablar en una junta. A su alrededor hay otras mujeres sentadas.
Posted inNews

10 perspectivas científicas para la COP27

by Meghie Rodrigues 23 November 202230 November 2022

Mientras las naciones se reunían en Sharm El-Sheikh, Egipto, los principales científicos del clima compartieron un nuevo informe para apoyar una política más eficaz.

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 83 Older posts

Features from AGU Journals

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHTS
JGR: Solid Earth
“New Tectonic Plate Model Could Improve Earthquake Risk Assessment”
By Morgan Rehnberg

EDITORS' HIGHLIGHTS
AGU Advances
“Eminently Complex – Climate Science and the 2021 Nobel Prize”
By Ana Barros

EDITORS' VOX
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists
“New Directions for Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists”
By Michael Wysession


About Eos
Contact
Advertise

Submit
Career Center
Sitemap

© 2023 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic