A powerful volcano is erupting. Here’s what that could mean for weather and climate
By Mary Gilbert
Volcanoes
Eruptions & activity 🌋
Earthquakes
Events around the globe 🚨
2.9 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey
By Michael Dorgan
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Indonesia's Java Island, felt in Jakarta
M6.9 earthquake hits south of Tokyo, no tsunami threat
Homes left 'trembling' as two earthquakes hit UK on same day
By Benedict Tetzlaff, Ben Summer & Ruth Suter
Tsunamis
Waves & warnings 🌊Indonesia issues tsunami alert after volcano erupts on remote island
By Kathleen Magramo
US Map Shows 'Hazard Zones' for Rising Sea Levels, Tsunamis
By Jess Thomson
Tsunami Video Explains Threat To Hawaiʻi, Tips To Prepare
A strong earthquake in Japan leaves 9 people with minor injuries. But there was no tsunami danger
Geology
The latest news & research 🌏
Ancient Rocks Reveal Earth's Magnetic Field Existed 3.7 Billion Years Ago
By Michelle Starr
Maps: Earthquakes Shake Eastern Taiwan
By William B. Davis, Bea Malsky & Madison Dong
Airport near volcano reopens as Indonesia lowers eruption alert level
Major magnitude 6.5 earthquake - Java, Indonesia, on Saturday, Apr 27, 2024, at 11:29 pm (GMT +7) -
More stories
New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own
By Robert M. Thorson
Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation abyssal limb in the North Atlantic
By Shenfu Dong, Torsten Kanzow & Renellys Perez
Full Coverage of this story
Tracking Tiny Movements Means Big Impacts for Earth Science - Teachable Moments | NASA/JPL Edu
By Brandon Rodriguez
NASA Earth Science Data and Earth Day: A Perfect Combination | Earthdata
By Joshua C Blumenfeld
Mass die-off half a billion years ago caused by shifting tectonic plates, ancient rocks reveal
By Stephanie Pappas
NASA Invites Media for Climate Update, New Earth Missions
Full Coverage of this storySubstantial cooling effect from aerosol-induced increase in tropical marine cloud cover
By Lazaros Oreopoulos, Florent F Malavelle & Ulrike Lohmann
What is geoengineering?
A Radical Experiment Shows Cloud Brightening May Be Our Climate's White Knight
By Darren Orf
To Slow Global Warming, Scientists Test Solar Geoengineering
By Christopher Flavelle & Ian Bates
A Secretive Experiment Released Salt Crystals Over San Francisco Bay—Could It Help Curb Warming?
By Christian Thorsberg
Full Coverage of this storyEckerd College professors join American Geosciences Institute Earth Day Webinar on plastic pollution
By Robbyn Hopewell
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters
By Adele M Jones & Denis M O'Carroll
EPA sets first-ever limits on PFAS in water
By Michael Phillis
South Florida Could See Water Bill Triple
By Anna Skinner
WA to adopt new regulation for 'forever chemicals' in drinking water
By Franque Thompson
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) | US EPA
Full Coverage of this story
Vestiges of a lunar ilmenite layer following mantle overturn revealed by gravity data
By Adrien Broquet, Alexander J. Evans & Min Ding
Full Coverage of this story