Earth Sciences

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New Study Points to Cascadia Quakes Triggering Rapid San Andreas Ruptures

Millennia of deep-sea sediment “doublets” suggest repeated back-to-back events with major implications for West Coast disaster planning.

Global Catalog of 1,039 Martian Dust Devils Reveals Faster Near-Surface Winds

King Tides Peak, Swamping South Florida Streets as Coastal Flood Advisories Hold

Space Force Awards Muon Space $44.6 Million for Three-Satellite Weather Demo Using Wildfire Sensor

Study Identifies 126,000-Year-Old Fossilized Butt-Drag Attributed to Rock Hyrax

Rare C31 Chemical Fossils Strengthen Case That Sponges Were Among Earth’s First Animals

Sealed Apollo 17 Sample Reveals Exotic Sulfur Signature Unlike Earth’s

Magnitude 6.6 Quake Rattles Lae, Papua New Guinea

Simulations Reveal Space Tornadoes That Current Monitors Miss, Prompting Solar‑Sail Probe Concept

Clam Shells Reveal Ongoing North Atlantic Destabilization, Raising Tipping-Point Concern

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Complex Organics in Fresh Enceladus Plume Grains

La Niña Watch in Effect as Warm Pacific Clouds U.S. Winter Outlook

Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Strikes Offshore East of Honshu, Japan

Aurora Outlook Eases After Strong Storms, With Northern U.S. Still in Play Tonight

New Analysis Finds Asteroid Belt’s Active Mass Shrinking by 0.0088% Per Million Years

Western U.P. Nears Peak Fall Color as Heat and Drought Stall Lower Michigan

Kīlauea’s Latest Summit Episode Sends Dual Lava Fountains to 1,300 Feet, Then Subsides

Swiss Glaciers Lose 3% of Ice in 2024–25, Fourth-Biggest Annual Decline

Study Finds Sierra Nevada Glaciers Have Endured Since the Ice Age Yet Could Vanish This Century

Imelda and Humberto Lock Into Rare Fujiwhara as Imelda Turns Away From U.S.