The roundness of sediment deposits may shed light on how big tsunamis were in the past and how to evaluate hazards in the future.Read More »Biogeosciences
Wildfires affect watersheds in myriad ways, from reducing evapotranspiration to changing soil repellencies, but new research suggests impacts on snowpack and runoff are the most significant.Read More »Geohealth
New research indicates that droughts in far-off places contribute to the amount of heat transported to regions experiencing heat waves.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Little seismic unrest preceded the 2014 eruption of a stratovolcano in Indonesia, which suggests that the eruption was kick-started internally by volatile-triggered overpressure.Read More »Ocean Sciences
New modeling indicates that global subsurface ocean currents distribute submerged microplastics along very different routes than those traveled by floating plastic debris.Read More »
