4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (863+ words) Periollat, who spend their careers watching how Earth’s crust bends and shifts as tectonic plates lock...underneath another. These are the zones responsible for Earth’s biggest earthquakes, the ones topping magnitude...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1061+ words) Scientists combined a century of ground uplift data with earthquake physics to forecast the size and timing of quake swarms at Italy's Campi Flegrei caldera. Pozzuoli is a port town built inside the Campi Flegrei caldera in southern Italy. Its…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (862+ words) How teachers frame nature can shape children's interest in environmental issues, with human-centered lessons producing a stronger short-term response. Ask a room of ten-year-olds why a wetland is worth protecting, and it turns out the answer you give them matters…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1116+ words) Coastal tides can differ measurably between neighboring beaches, and 40 years of satellite images now map them every 330 feet. A tide table reads like a fact about one beach. Along most of the coast, the instruments behind it sit far apart,…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1073+ words) flame or embers toward the structure,” Bar told Earth.com. Fence material came out on top at 16% of a...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (830+ words) Decades-old museum collections from La Brea have revealed a bone belonging to a new species of Ice Age amphibian, a type of spadefoot toad. The most sensitive climate instrument at La Brea Tar Pits is not a mammoth. It is…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1008+ words) Plate tectonics loads a fault over centuries, but something else usually decides the moment it finally breaks. Research on California seismicity shows that groundwater cycles, stress from neighboring ruptures, and fluid injected underground can all nudge a fault past its…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (668+ words) Fast-moving wildfires kill seed-producing trees, leaving western forests less able to recover and more likely to become shrublands or grasslands. Wildfires tearing across the American West and Canada may be burning so intensely that the hardest-hit forests never return to…...

3+ day, 56+ min ago   (907+ words) Plants use past temperatures to guide flowering, with different genes tracking seasonal conditions across days, weeks, and months. Plants do not have brains, but they still keep track of the past. For a plant waiting through winter, yesterday’s temperature is…...