A thick haze of aerosols—mostly from anthropogenic sources like vehicles and industry—hangs over eastern China in this image captured by NASA’s satellite-mounted Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in October 2024. Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC

Satellite image draped onto the Google Earth DEM for the middle section of the Langtung Lirung landslide. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 25 August 2026.

Shades erected by researchers reduced the amount of sunlight reaching coral by 60%. Credit: Karen Neely

Tollund Man is the name given to the startlingly well-preserved remains of a man who lived the in the 5th century BCE and was unearthed in a Danish peat bog in 1950. The anaerobic conditions of the bog preserved his remains down to his stubbled chin—and the rope noose, visible at left, that ended his life. Credit: Arne Mikkelsen, Museum Silkeborg

Wildfires may have allowed for the transition of the Antarctic landscape from temperate rainforest to peat bog by keeping the landscape open. Credit: J. McKay, CC-BY 4.0

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Satellite image draped onto the Google Earth DEM for the Langtung Lirung landslide. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 25 August 2026.

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Google Earth image of the location of the 6 August 2025 Dayuan landslide.

The scientific community and Congress have long recommended that NASA increase its research and analysis spending. Instead, funding has remained flat for 15 years. Credit: ajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Researchers have developed a way to reconstruct 3D images of the full rhizosphere—the layer of soil beneath the surface where fungi and plant roots interact—in its natural environment for the first time. Credit: Henri Braunmiller

Google Earth image of the site of the 27 September 2026 landslide on the Kaligandaki River in Nepal.

Chariklo, a nonspherical asteroid between Saturn and Uranus, was the first asteroid found to have a ring system. Credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris, CC BY 4.0

The authors’ proposed framework, illustrating how 3D variation in electrical resistivity from airborne electromagnetic (AEM) can be used alongside links between soil texture and electrical properties to assign spatial patterns in hydraulic properties within the Scott Valley aquifer system. Credit: Scantlebury and Harter [2026], Figure 2

Recorded landslide incidents in Nepal in the period 24 to 28 September 2026, via the Bipad portal.

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Lodgepole pines make up about 80% of the tree canopy in Yellowstone National Park. These trees are adapted to occasional severe fires. Credit: National Park Service/Jacob W. Frank

Fireweed, seen here in 2019 in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, is often one of the first plants to grow back following a wildfire. Credit: Lisa Hupp, USFWS/Flickr, Public Domain

The aftermath of the Matai'an landslide dam breach. Image using images from Planet Labs, from He et al. (2025).

Wave breaking and run-up are seen here near a lifeguard tower at Torrey Pines State Beach in Southern California. Credit: Cassandra Henderson

Researchers used a technique called digital fossil mining to uncover four fossilized squid beaks dating to roughly 67 million years ago. Credit: Hokkaido University

A deep-sea brine pool, one of the most extreme environments on Earth, is shown here in the northern Red Sea, surrounded by metalliferous sediments. Credit: OceanXplorer

This illustration depicts NASA’s Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS) satellites, which detected chorus waves in the plasma surrounding Earth. Credit: NASA

A debris flow on Highway 34 near Kyonan Hota IC in Chiba. Image tweeted by James Reynolds.

The Newton Building at NTU

The _Lake Guardian_ is the largest research vessel owned by the EPA and conducts annual surveys of all five Great Lakes. Credit: EPA

New research examines one of the earliest instances of a solar storm affecting human technology: an 1848 solar storm that interfered with a telegraph system and caused a delay in the 10:05 p.m. passenger train departure out of Exeter, England. Credit: © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, Science Museum Group Collection, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Tropical tree emissions hang above the forest canopy around Borobudur temple on the island of Java. Credit: Kanenori/Pixabay

Data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft were used to create this image of Venus’s northern hemisphere. New research examines the possibility that peptides can form into omega loops in the planet’s sulfuric clouds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Dust plumes in Baja California, Mexico in October 2007. Credit: NASA

Over six trips, master’s student Bronson Cvijanovich (pictured here walking on snow) collected 232 observations of the Timpanogos Rock Glacier in Utah using a gravimeter, which measures subtle differences in Earth’s gravity. Credit: Michael Thorne

New research aims to improve understanding of the heat engine driving winds on Earth. Credit: Daniel Boberg/Unsplash

New research suggests that rainwater contains unexpectedly high concentrations of volatile organic compounds—including many human-created chemicals that can have adverse health effects. Credit: Bernd Dittrich/Unsplash

These clouds associated with a cold air outbreak (CAO) were photographed near the Arctic island of Svalbard in spring 2026 as part of an aircraft observing campaign. Credit: Marcus Klingebiel

The 2008 Reno–Mogul earthquake swarm. Maps in panels (a) and (c) show earthquake epicenters; panel (a) also includes mapped faults and GPS stations. Panel (b) presents earthquake depths, while panel (d) shows changes in the number of earthquakes over time. Panels (c) and (d) compare the original catalog (black) with events remaining after likely aftershocks were removed (red). Credit: Credit: Jiang et al. [2026], Figure 4

Caption/Credit: New research finds that the majority of the ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica since the 1980s has come from glaciers and ice sheets discharging into the ocean, rather than melting at the surface. Here, melt ponds are seen dotting the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2025. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey

Planet Labs image from 28 August 2026 showing the aftermath of the 26 August 2026 landslide in Nepal. Image via Watanave Lab.

Objects found by Yellowstone's Geology Program team are laid out here like a game of "I Spy." Can you spot the jingle bell, compass, and micro-SD card? Credit: National Park Service photo by Margery Price, September 2026

Researchers collect samples from hyperalkaline springs of the Voltri ophiolite in Italy, which are fed by ongoing serpentinization of rock below the surface. Hydrogen generated by serpentinization migrates toward the surface through these springs. Credit: Laurent Truche

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The aftermath of the 2023 Teesta Valley GLOF in Chungthang, posted to the Save The Hills blog by Praful Rao.

EPA Adminstrator Lee Zeldin speaks in an EPA announcement last year. Credit: EPA

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Scientists are exploring precisely what happened in Earth’s radiation belts during a May 2024 geomagnetic superstorm that caused visible aurorae over many parts of the world, including this road in New Zealand. Credit: Paul Taylor/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

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The aftermath of the 17 July 2026 landslide at Hanjia in Chongqing, China. Image from Xinhua.

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The Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research eddy covariance (EC) flux tower measures surface-atmosphere exchanges of energy and gas in the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colo. This site was visited by attendees of a 2025 Chapman Conference focused on the energy balance closure (EBC) problem. Credit: Nicolas Tarasewicz