More than 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers are still searching for new ways to tackle disastrous ...

New evidence from the Natural Hazards Commission – Toka Tū Ake (NHC) shows that landslides are now New Zealand's most costly ...

A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples found that largely unmonitored industrial compounds are widespread ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that impacts science and scientists today. Human-driven climate change is driving the rise of sea levels ...

NOAA’s hurricane outlook forecasts the likelihood of tropical storms such as 2015’s Hurricane Jimena, seen here. Credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 In its annual forecast of the upcoming ...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, global sea level has risen by about 20 centimeters (roughly 8 inches) [Fox-Kemper et al., 2021]. As a result, coastal and island communities around the world ...

A render of the completed Cheekeye Debris Barrier. Image via the District of Squamish. In British Columbia a CAN$115 million project is almost complete to mitigate the risk posed by debris flows to ...

“What do you do when the most powerful people in the country just decide that your field shouldn’t exist anymore?” asked one Earth scientist on Bluesky. “So, what are we doing now that we’re just not ...

Northstar Island, an artificial island in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, is home to an oil well that produces approximately 10,000 barrels of oil per day. Credit: U.S. Department of the ...

An archive of pilot whale tissue collected around the Faroe Islands has provided scientists with a decades-long record of how different per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulate in remote ...

Urbanization, climate change, and fire suppression practices are contributing to increased wildfire risk at the densely populated wildland-urban interface. These factors make fires more unpredictable ...