How Does Social Vulnerability Evolve After a Tropical Cyclone?

A house was thrown off its foundation and onto a car during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. New research examines how the social vulnerability index of communities evolves in the wake of a tropical cyclone. Credit: Infrogmation of New Orleans, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Late Campanian Arabia-Eastern Anatolia Collision

General view of the upper Campanian–Eocene succession deposited in the Arabian foreland basin. Provenance data from turbiditic sandstones of the Kastel Formation record the earliest arrival of detritus derived from a volcanic arc developed on the Anatolian upper plate. Sandstones of the overlying Paleocene Germav Formation indicate derivation from a broader range of sources, including rocks from the upper plate and from the subducted and subsequently exhumed lower plate. Credit: Akdoğan et al. [2026], Figure 4a

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The 3 August 2026 landslide at the Debre Metmik Tsadkane Mariam Monastery in Ethiopia

Google earth image of the Debre Metmik Tsadkane Mariam Monastery.

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The Definitive Guide to the TEX86 Paleothermometer

The marine sedimentary biomarker pool receives membrane lipids from multiple archaeal groups and sources living throughout the water column and sediments, as well as bacterial lipids from marine and terrestrial sources. Understanding the contribution of these different inputs is essential for interpreting TEX86 paleotemperatures and other lipid-based paleoclimate proxies. Credit: Elling et al. [2026], Figure 13

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Work-Life Balance

Credit: roseandsigil/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

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Sidney Opiyo: Bringing Fisheries Science Home

Sidney Opiyo’s research into fisheries overlaps with his interests in scuba diving and photography. Credit: Sidney Opiyo

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Jill Pelto: Glacier Monitoring as a Lifelong Muse

Jill Pelto’s depiction of a North Cascade glacier incorporates glacier mass balance data for all North Cascade glaciers in Washington from 1984 to 2022. Credit: Jill Pelto Art

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Maoya Bassiouni: Curiouser and Curiouser

Scientist and artist Maoya Bassiouni is seen in a still from _The Drive_ , a film on which she collaborated with her friend Guillaume le Vallois. In the film, Bassiouni turned the back of a taxi into a pinhole camera. Credit: Guillaume le Vallois

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Kuwanna Dyer-Pietras: Running Through the Rock Record

Kuwanna Dyer-Pietras is seen here running her favorite race—a 50-miler called Cayuga Trails—in Ithaca, N.Y., in 2023. Credit: Ron Heerkens Jr. of Goat Factory Media

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Jess Atkin: Space Biologist Enriches Soil and the Lives of Fellow Veterans

Jess Atkin holds chickpea plants in the lab. These chickpeas were grown in a lunar regolith simulant. Credit: Michael Miller, Texas A&M

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Danielle Ignace: Bringing One’s Whole Self to Science and Beyond

Danielle Ignace is an ecophysiologist at the University of Minnesota. But she’s also an artist and mentor. Credit: Sandra Costello

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Daniel Pastor-Galán: Studying Ancient Earth, with a Little Help from His Friends

Daniel Pastor-Galán, seen here taking samples at Japan’s Mount Zaō, studies ancient supercontinents, with a little help from his musical heroes. Credit: Daniel Pastor-Galán

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Elizabeth Cottrell: From Collecting Rocks to Curating the National Rock Collection

Elizabeth Cottrell went from collecting rocks as a child to becoming the steward of one of the world’s largest collections of rocks and ores. Here she is seen working in her laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History. Credit: Elizabeth Cottrell

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Submarine landslide inventory for the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake

Canyon headwall landslides after the Kaikōura earthquake at 2 m grid with mapped morphology and arrows showing movement direction, illustrating loss of diagnostic detail at coarse resolution and improved delineation at high resolution. From Gnesko et al. (2026).

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Heat, Drought, Wildfires: Climate Change Supercharges Disasters in Europe

Intense wildfires are burning in Spain and France, including these ones near Madrid and northwest of Valancia. Credit: ©EUMETSAT 2026

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The valley-blocking Wanlixi landslide in Taiwan

Aerial image of the Wanlixi landslide and lake as of 30 July 2026. Image from the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Taiwan,

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Climate Change Made Spain Wildfires At Least 20 Times More Likely

In 2022, a fire in western Spain burned thousands of hectares. This summer, an ongoing drought has spurred even more widespread fires in Spain. Credit: Copernicus Programme, Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022

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How Water Flows Toward Cities During Hurricanes

The Delaware Water Gap sits upstream of the Delaware River’s mouth near Philadelphia. In new work, researchers simulated a compound flooding event during Hurricane Irene, which occurred in 2011 over the Delaware River basin. Credit: Jason/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

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Distant Oceans May Help Predict Malaria Risk in Malawi

In the southeast African country of Malawi, malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality. A new study examines how ocean temperatures could affect transmission rates in the country. Credit: Avi Alpert/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

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A New Pathway for Energy Redistribution in Near-Earth Space

Credit: Logan Voss, Unsplash

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Landslide Exposure in the United States

Population exposure to high landslide susceptibility in the United States from Acosta-Reyes et al. 2026. Original caption: "National distribution of population exposure to high landslide susceptibility. Building-level LED population estimates aggregated to the census tract level. Map projected in Albers Equal Area Conic (EPSG:5070); Alaska and Hawaii are displaced from their geographic locations for visualization, with Alaska displayed at 50% of native scale."

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Tracking Penguin Poop from Space Reveals Antarctica’s Changing Ecosystems

The pinkish color of these guano-covered Adélie penguins on Coronation Island in Antarctica is thanks to their diet. Credit: Liam Quinn/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Arctic Sea Ice Loss May Be Reshaping the Asian Monsoon

These monsoon clouds hovering over Bangladesh were photographed from the International Space Station in June 2002. Credit: NASA, CC BY-NC 2.0

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Rising CO2 Alters Upper Atmosphere Response to Stratosphere Sudden Warming

This figure shows the percentage change in the daily zonal mean electron density (latitudes vs pressure, approximate altitudes on right y-axis) during the 2008-2009 sudden stratospheric warming under doubled CO2 conditions relative to control conditions (present CO2). Credit: Kumar et al. [2026], Figure 5d

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Fatal landslides in June 2026

The cumulative total number of global fatal landslides in 2026 by pentad to the end of June.

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What Drives Derechos? The First Derecho Archive Could Help Meteorologists Figure It Out.

Satellite imagery shows the 10 August 2020 derecho moving across Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Credit: NOAA

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人工智能提升地震检测能力

图中所示的SPITS地震台阵位于挪威斯瓦尔巴群岛。该台阵的传感器埋设于地下。图片来源：NORSAR/Jan Petter Hansen

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Enhancing Induced Seismicity: A New Window into Earthquake Physics

Geological model of the BedrettoLab surroundings (modified after Ceccato et al. [2026]) and set-up of the injection and monitoring boreholes in the experiment niche in the lab. The experimental niche is located in a 5-kilometer-long tunnel in southern Switzerland. Credit: Gischig et al. [2026], Figures 1a and 1b

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The 17-21 May 2026 landslides in Shimen County, Hunan, China

Planet Labs image of the smaller May 2026 landslides in Shimen County, China. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, draped onto the Google Earth DEM.

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The Role of Tidal Wetlands in the Global Nitrogen Cycle Under Global Change

Nitrogen (N) flows in tidal wetlands. Part of the N inputs to marsh and mangroves can be sequestered as “blue N”. Credit: Langley et al. [2026], Figure 3

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