Fieldwork in Tanzania suggests that soil chemistry—influenced by local volcanism and tectonic activity—might help dictate the record-setting migration of over a million wildebeests.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Pandemic relief funding should provide a much-needed boost to scientific research. And we should steer those dollars toward where they can do the most good.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens influenced scientists who witnessed the event and spurred a new era in physical volcanology.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
New research reveals a deep-sea mining experiment that took place 26 years ago still has significant and persistent impacts on benthic life.Read More »
A new data set combining sample data and remote sensing could give scientists the power to make accurate predictions at a global scale. Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
Challenges to studying the ionosphere’s ability to conduct electrical currents undercut scientists’ efforts to improve space weather forecasting models. Let’s tackle them together.Read More »Climate Change
The planetary boundaries framework defines how much human disturbance various Earth system processes can take, but it may not adequately depict the water cycle or the extent to which we’ve altered it.Read More »Natural Hazards
Much of routine monitoring can be done remotely these days, but networks aren’t completely immune to COVID-19’s society-halting symptoms.Read More »Mathematical Geophysics
Earth scientists outline challenges to making the growing wealth of available data more accessible and to using data services for interdisciplinary research and applications.Read More »
