By Natalie Raia, AGU Board of Directors The AGU Board of Directors is charged with the duties of care, loyalty, obedience, and foresight for the organization. It's not surprising, then, that the theme of resilience -- for AGU, for our scientific community, and for the knowledge infrastructure that supports science -- has been at the forefront of conversation lately. Nature provides us with...

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The Planetary Society's strategic vision to explore more, discover more, and understand more about the Cosmos and our place within it....

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AGU joined a coalition letter t0 the NASA administrator expressing concern over research funding at NASA. We, the undersigned coalition of organizations, write to you today to jointly present and express our concerns regarding the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) solicitations. Our organizations represent tens of thousands of scientific researchers and supporters who...

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As glaciers continue to shrink, important questions around glacier diplomacy and water supply played out among Central Asian nations during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan....

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Conference schedules are gruelling.  You wake up in a timezone and climate you aren't used to, coffee in hand trudge into the first plenary session, and then spend the day bouncing between freezing conference rooms catching the talks in your area ...

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Massive Megalodon SharkIf you were sitting on the side of a 25-metre swimming pool and looked down to see a shark, this fellow would fill one end to the other. It is wild to consider that megalodon would leave just a wee bit of room at either en...

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For this month's episode of HydroTalks, we're thrilled to welcome Dr. Hossein Hashemi, an associate professor in the Division of Water Resources Engineering at Lund University in Sweden and a member of the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on groundwater and surface water management in arid and water-scarce regions, combining remote sensing, artificial intelligence and climate analysis.

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The problems started in 2023 with Project Red in Nevada. Fervo's self-published paper described their small demonstration project as "commercial scale". But Project Red was neither commercial (as in economically profitable), nor of significant scale. While providing some interesting results that they could have quietly built on, instead Fervo's initial reporting for Project Red overstated...

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Extreme heatwaves of unprecedented magnitude are expected to become increasingly frequent in coming decades. These heatwaves come with severe consequences for human health, infrastructure planning, and economic prospects - particularly during events lasting multiple weeks [10]. In recent decades, Western Europe has become a hot-spot for record-breaking and long-lasting heatwaves [9], raising a critical question: How extreme could future heatwaves in this region plausibly get?

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Megalodon teethA megalodon tooth is a wonderful thing to hold in your hand. The broad crown, thick root and finely serrated edges give us a sense of the animal behind it, even when the rest of that animal is missing. Some of the largest teeth ap...

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In a nutshell: Tutorials with human tutors help learning (duh!), GenAI tutors nudge students away from the students' own solutions towards other ones that they for some reason prefer, and humans are still better at grading math olympiad tasks! Ther...

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By Aris Kwadijk, PhD candidate, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University, and Walter W. Immerzeel, Professor, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University. Email: a.kwadijk@uu.nl, w.w.immerzeel@uu.nl. Website: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/AKwadijk, https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/WWImmerzeel.

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Everyone wants something from Arrakis. The Emperor wants control, the great houses want spice, and the Fremen would quite reasonably like everyone else to leave. I would settle for a geological map. Preferably with a few cross-sections, although I realise that asking someone to carry a seismic survey across sandworm territory might complicate the risk assessment.

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The ancient oceans were full of watchful eyes. Some bulged. Some perched on stalks. And some belonged to animals that looked at the world through crystal lenses.Meet the trilobites.Armoured, joint-legged and occasionally extravagantly spiny, these ma...

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Figure 3d,e,f from Mishra et al. (2026): Evolution of WW and AAIW core salinity anomalies. Linear-trend maps of AAIW core salinity for 2004-2015 (d) and 2016-2024 (e) (in grams per kilogram per year). Time series of circumpolar-mean AAIW core sal...

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The Motherhood Penalty in Academia (Marie Arnaud)

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Kilauea is a basaltic volcano, driven by magma from a deep hot spot. Over time it has build a summit on top of the older Mauna Loa lava pile, and a one-sided eastern ridge extending far into the Pacific Ocean. There is a rift on the west side as well...

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Thunderstorms dumping 12 inches or more of rain triggered a flash flood emergency on Florida's Space Coast and may have contributed to a deadly plane crash near Palm Beach, while Arizona dealt with widespread flooding....

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Williams has channeled his experience as a comedian and his M.A. in Climate and Society to create "Climate Town," a popular YouTube series and media company that uses meticulously researched satire to explain climate and energy issues....

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My next post about the Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures is from the first half of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. The park is essentially two main parts, the first is the Statue of Liberty, and the second is Ellis Island. And since they are really their own entities, I will treat them separately. 

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Cast of Oreodont, John Day FormationWith a pig-like body, a sheep-ish silhouette and a distant connection to camels, an oreodont is a lovely reminder that ancient life did not always fit neatly into familiar categories. These curious mammals wer...

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Our new ELI for November is 'Probing the ground - by physics; using the remote sensing power of physics, to find what is beneath the ground'.

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Cast your vote for the best of space exploration and science in 2026!...

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Have you ever wondered what makes a good peer review? Are you an early career scientist preparing to review your first manuscript, or curious about what happens behind the scenes in academic publishing?

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