Tectonicist Michael DeLucia stands in front of the Great Unconformity in the St. Francois Mountains, near Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest. The smooth rock in the photo is Precambrian rhyolite, ...

This active storm near Batesville, Texas, produced frequent cloud-to-ground lightning. A newly established task team is tackling the challenges of making lightning data available for use in climate ...

The quality and quantity of springs around the world have been declining over recent decades, largely due to human activities and climate change. A new book in AGU’s Geophysical Monograph Series, ...

The surface waters of warm western boundary currents are poor in nutrients. Therefore, intrusions of these nutrient-depleted water into the region are considered to reduce biological production.

One of the most important services performed for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the conscientious reviewing of submitted papers. Because of the nature of the reviewing process, this service ...

High population density, a potential for large earthquakes, and sedimentary basins that amplify the motions from seismic waves put downtown Los Angeles at risk. To find out more about this risk, ...

The change was caused by thirsty vegetation taking up less carbon than normal, not by the year’s extended fire season, new research shows.

Each of the tens of thousands of posters and oral talks presented at AGU meetings every year requires an abstract. Credit: Karna Kurata To give a talk or poster at an American Geophysical Union (AGU) ...

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. Gerardo Medina’s plumbing has ...

This simulation shows what it might look like to dive into a lunar pit and explore a connected lava tube. Credit: Conor Marsh, University of Manchester/ ESA The Moon’s surface is pockmarked with more ...

One by-product of the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 is a view with an unprecedented level of detail of the landscape deep in the Indian Ocean. This 3-D image shows the ...

As a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the 1980s, Mark Serreze studied sea ice in the Beaufort Gyre, a current in the Arctic Ocean just north of Canada. He used a network of ...