Earth

Climate systems, geology, oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere, and the measurements that reveal planetary change.

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Field Report

Mud Beneath an Antarctic Lake Holds a Longer Climate Memory Than Ice

A field team is recovering layered sediment that records how wind, meltwater, and microscopic life changed across thousands of seasons.

Leah Morgan / July 25, 2026 / 8 min

Visual Investigation

A visual investigation into why scientists track the overturning circulation with arrays, proxies, models, and a lot of caution.

Leah Morgan / July 13, 2026 / 10 min

Analysis

Infrasound arrays are helping observatories distinguish routine gas release from shifts that deserve closer attention.

Leah Morgan / July 10, 2026 / 6 min

Discovery

Archaeologists are combining sediment cores, drone mapping, and old excavation notes to understand how water infrastructure shaped urban life.

Leah Morgan / June 27, 2026 / 6 min

Space / Analysis

Repeated infrared observations are helping astronomers distinguish moving cloud decks from the chemical signatures in an exoplanet atmosphere.

Mara Chen / Jul 27, 2026 / 7 min

Life / Field Report

Divers and autonomous sensors are mapping small temperature refuges that broad ocean forecasts can miss.

Iris Novak / Jul 26, 2026 / 7 min

Health / Field Report

Public-health laboratories are testing how viral measurements in sewage can complement clinics without turning one noisy signal into a forecast.

Nico Reyes / Jul 24, 2026 / 7 min

Physics / Field Report

Instead of waiting for one detector to spike, physicists are comparing synchronized instruments for a pattern that crosses them in sequence.

Mara Chen / Jul 23, 2026 / 8 min