Science Spotlights
Eruptions of Rain
Q: While the effects of volcanic eruptions on Earth’s temperature are well known, their impacts on flooding have not been...
Science Spotlights
Chasing Windstorms in Coastal Mountains
Key messages from "The Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX) in Santa Barbara, California: Advancing Understanding and Predictability of Downslope Windstorms in...
Science Spotlights
Exploring a Frozen Frontier’s Chemistry
Key messages from "Overview of the Chemistry in the Arctic: Clouds, Halogens, and Aerosols (CHACHA) Field Campaign,” by Jose D....
Perspectives
Facing, or recovering from, natural disasters? You’re on your own.
Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice. – Will Durant Disaster safety nets are inadequate internationally and...
Science Spotlights
Fire and Ice: When Sparks Fly in Lake-Effect Snowstorms
Key messages from "Winter Lightning to the Lee of Lake Ontario: The Lake-Effect Electrification (LEE) Field Campaign," by Scott M....
Members
Yang Elected as AGU Fellow
Zong-Liang Yang, a professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, was elected as...
Members
Lightning Round with AMS Journal Editors
AMS journal editors play an important role in the process of communicating research ideas, accomplishments, and progress in the sciences...
Perspectives
Globally, the national actions will likely speak louder than COP30 words.
“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear...
From AMS Journals
Global Record in Question: Could Death Valley lose its claim to “world’s hottest place”?
New analysis of the Death Valley record for hottest weather-related air-surface temperature recorded on Earth suggests the record is “implausible.”
Science Spotlights
Rocks of Ages
~87 million years—The age of some fossilized micrometeorites that were recently studied to help provide new insight into Earth’s past...
