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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may drop a widely-used future emissions scenario as it develops its seventh climate report. In part due to the dropping cost of renewable ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study using simulations of Earth’s past sheds light on how the ocean current that swirls around Antarctica first formed. Credit: Martin Klingenbock, IAEA/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 A critical ocean ...

While the rocky planets of our solar system started forming at the same time, their divergent evolution led to varied surface environments and potential for habitability. A new article in Reviews of ...