Remote Sensing

Flood peaks arrived earlier at 52.2% of the river sites a global satellite survey could measure over 2008 to 2025, and at 27 of the 50 largest river basin outlets, researchers report in…

For most of two years, Kīlauea kept appointments. Pressure gathered in the shallow magma reservoir beneath Halemaʻumaʻu, the ground around the crater tilted, and within days or weeks lava rose from…

In July 2020, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake broke the plate boundary beneath the Shumagin Islands, off the Alaska Peninsula, and shoved the seafloor upward. That is how a tsunami is usually made. The…

Under severe drought, most of the world's monitored rivers take a larger share of their flow from water seeping in from below ground, according to a global analysis of stream gauges published Oct. 5,…

A study published Oct. 2 in Communications Earth & Environment reports a link between phytoplankton blooms in the high-latitude North Atlantic and how much central Europe's vegetation grows over the…

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Oct. 2 that western Europe had its warmest summer in 2026 since its rankings began in 1950, averaging 21.7 °C across June, July and…

Forecasters at the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre used laser measurements from Europe's EarthCARE satellite to verify how high the ash plume from Anak Krakatau was reaching, the European Space…

For decades, the question of who lives next to an oil or gas well has been answered one country at a time. The United States has a number. Canada has one. Each was built to its own design, with its…

Around midday on March 12 and 14, 2024, at the end of the Chilean summer, Millie Spencer and Robert Clasing flew a small drone over the bare ice of a volcano in Chile's Ñuble region. The wind over…

Joey J. Voermans and Alexander V. Babanin of the University of Melbourne and colleagues report that wave buoys moored in a patch of open water inside East Antarctic sea ice recorded wind-driven waves…

The European Union's Copernicus Marine Service published the 10th edition of its annual open-access Ocean State Report Sept. 30, 2026, adding 18 new peer-reviewed chapters on the state of the global…

The authors' sketch of how newly formed particles feed droplet nuclei in each regime. Red arrows mark the estimated direction of future change under an intermediate emissions scenario. — Fig. 4 from…