New evidence about where a major earthquake struck central Washington State 145 years ago raises the possibility that today’s unusually frequent quakes in the area still echo that 1872 event.

Research spotlights are plain-language summaries of recent articles published in AGU’s suite of 24 journals.

On 28 July, more than 170 researchers sent a letter to National Science Foundation leaders and Congress, urging them to reconsider the decision to terminate the lease of the Nathaniel B. Palmer ...

The stories that follow highlight the journeys of scientists who have been blown off course, let the winds carry them, and stood tall in the breeze. When, from the age of 11, one scientist knew ...

Many important problems related to how Earth’s climate works, as well as how we can produce and use energy more efficiently, require extraordinarily complex calculations to address them ...

The Great Unconformity—a huge time gap in the rock record—may have been triggered by the uplift of an ancient supercontinent, say researchers using a novel method for dating rocks.

A new German research consortium is investigating why near-surface air temperatures in the Arctic are rising more quickly than in the rest of the world.

A new eight-rotor robotic probe will head to the solar system’s most Earth-like moon. Here’s what its team is doing to prepare.

A rich trove of marine geophysical data acquired in the search for missing flight MH370 is yielding knowledge of ocean floor processes at a level of detail rare in the deep ocean.

The newly named period in the Pleistocene identifies a key moment in geological history: the last time Earth’s magnetic poles switched places.

Climate and topography change the characteristics of the Asian monsoon over millions of years. These changes affect the region’s climate and topography, and the cycle continues.

Newly drilled cores from the Baltic Sea reveal 1,500 years of deoxygenation history. The record sheds light on the dire state of the Baltic Sea today.