NASA satellites help scientists observe how rivers carve the Earth
A satellite built to measure Earth’s water has started answering a different kind of question. “What’s the shape…
Kambalda’s future unclear on 60th anniversary of nickel discovery
A rusty remnant of the past casts a large shadow over the West Australian outback. The steel headframe…
Climate mode interactions amplify coastal flood risks and their seasonal predictability
McMichael, C., Dasgupta, S., Ayeb-Karlsson, S. & Kelman, I. A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise…
Global water security threatened by rising inequality
He, C. et al. Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions. Nat. Commun. 12, 4667 (2021). Article …
New map shows Antarctica’s buried landscape in unprecedented detail
Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep…
Today in history, January 15: Australia’s London Bridge fell down
Kelli Bryers wasn’t sure if anyone had seen the London Bridge collapse just seconds after she and her…
Weak self-induced cooling of tropical cyclones amid fast sea surface warming
TC datasets Global TC best-track data from 1992 to 2021, distributed by the US National Hurricane Center and…
Ancient Antarctica Reveals a ‘One–Two Punch’ Behind Ice Sheet Collapse, New Research Shows
BYLINE: Jennifer Micale Newswise — When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the…
Here’s how sinkholes can form underground long before anyone realises
Residents in Melbourne’s north-east were shocked on Tuesday to discover a sinkhole had appeared in their local park.…
West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology
The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse…
The Doomsday Glacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse
Known as the “Doomsday Glacier,” the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is one of the most rapidly changing glaciers…
Scientists Just Mapped 16 Massive Martian Rivers That Defy Geological Rules by Flowing Without Plate Tectonics
Large drainage systems on Mars. Image from the study. We’ve known for a while that Mars was once…