2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (342+ words) Forty Thousand Cubic Meters of Fresh Water Flow from the Congo into the Atlantic Every Second. A New Study Traces Where It Goes from There. eos. org The Congo River is the second largest river in the world, releasing an…...

2+ hour, 8+ min ago  (327+ words) AI Improves Earthquake Detection eos. org One seismometer is often not enough to reliably detect earthquakes or human activity such as underground nuclear tests. Rather, researchers combine readings from seismometers distributed across a small geographic area to gain confidence in…...

6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (12+ words) A book review: Engineering Geomorphology - A Practitioners Guide by Gareth Hearn (2025)....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (360+ words) Every year, an additional 11 million tons of microplastics permeate the water column and marine ecosystems within it. Geoscience is contributing to strategies that aim to identify microplastic movements'and stop them. Microplastics have infiltrated all parts of the ocean, with particles…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (196+ words) A large landslide in India, triggered by monsoon rainfall, was captured on a remarkable video. On Monday 29 June 2026, a valley-blocking landsldie occurred on the Siji River in Lower Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. I have yet to track down the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (567+ words) As a warming climate alters the Arctic landscape, beavers are moving northward, building dams as they go, creating new ponds, and even accelerating permafrost thaw. The rodents have moved so far north that reports exist of beavers swimming in the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (371+ words) Eric Davidson is Past President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and director and professor of the Appalachian Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Previously, he served as president and executive director at the Woods Hole…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (235+ words) Conceptual model showing how fluids released by dehydration reactions in the subducting plate are transported toward and along the megathrust. The framework links deep fluid generation, permeability, fluid pressure, and deformation style to the transition between frictional slip and viscous…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (164+ words) Autogenic processes of sediment storage and erosion regulate shoreline movement and therefore, where coastal wetlands develop, setting up subsurface areas of preserved organic matter, blue carbon. Coastal river deltas are important components of the global carbon cycle, providing significant long-term…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (627+ words) Shortly after Frank Telles arrived at Northern Arizona University to start his Ph. D. , researchers announced that they had just radiocarbon-dated a set of fossilized human footprints found within the gypsum dunes of New Mexico's White Sands National Park. Sandwiched between…...