11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (222+ words) Dear Eos: A 4 a.m. start was a small price to pay for the rare opportunity to access the extraordinary landscape of Etosha Pan, Namibia, before sunrise. Colleagues and I walked several kilometers pushing a portable wind tunnel mounted on a field…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (291+ words) In November 2025, Cyclone Senyar generated extreme rainfall in parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggering thousands of landslides. Our new paper in the journal Current Biology demonstrates that these landslides might have a devastating impact on a critically endangered population of Tapanuli…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (611+ words) Roughly the size of Texas, the Karoo Basin of central western South Africa is brutally dry, sparsely populated, and known in part for its potentially “massive” hydrocarbon deposits. South Africa, which consumes more energy than any other country in sub-Saharan…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (251+ words) A new paper Fidan et al. (2026) demonstrates that wealth and the rate of land-cover change play a key role in determining the occurrence of fatal landslides in mountain areas. These factors are statistically more significant that precipitation and topography. Fidan…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago   (519+ words) On every continent, unassuming rocks covered in a thin, slimy layer of microbes pull carbon from the air and deposit it as solid calcium carbonate rock. These are microbialites, rocks formed by communities of microorganisms that absorb nutrients from the…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (440+ words) The Serengeti is one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. The massive savanna stretches more than 30,000 square kilometers across Tanzania and southwestern Kenya, and conservation sites, including national parks and a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World…...