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A coastal wetland seen from above, with low-growing brush gradually transitioning into open water from foreground to background

Rising seas are swallowing the vast majority of US coastal wetlands

AGU Newsroom
August 2026

Century Park in Shanghai, China, seen from above, surrounded by a variety of urban environments.

Climate change may prop up urban plant growth amid development — if cities build slowly enough

AGU Newsroom
July 2026

A graphic illustrating how various climate factors like greenhouse gas emissions, sea-level rise, and land surface temperature have changed since he release of the UN's AR6 report.

1.5 °C Looks Inevitable

Engineering
May 2026

A patch of cleared rainforest with logs littering the ground and a dirt road with two trucks running along the outer edge on a hazy day.

Deforestation lessens Amazon rainfall, and climate change hastens that process

AGU Newsroom
May 2026

The front edge of a wildfire burning through a coniferous forest in the daytime, with plumes of smoke following behind, seen from above

Western U.S. wildfires have gotten less frequent, though larger

AGU Newsroom
April 2026

An agricultural worker in a sun hat using a long stick on a pile of brush against a dim, smokey sky

Much of humanity may face hot-dry extremes five times more often by end-century

AGU Newsroom
April 2026

A collage of a collapsing glacier face, a wildfire, a hurricane seen from space, a flooded highway, a parched agricultural field, and a blazing sun in a clear sky

In a first, researchers confirm global warming has accelerated in last decade

AGU Newsroom
March 2026

Electrical discharges on the tips of spruce needles, observed up close

Thunderstorms conjure ghostly coronae in treetops, observed outdoors for the first time

AGU Newsroom
Feb 2026

A rendering of a lunar lander on the moon's surface, with astronauts at work in the foreground and the Earth rising in the black sky behind

Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life

AGU Newsroom
Jan 2026

A close-up shot of a flower of a wiliwili tree on a Hawaiian island

In Case of Fire, Naupaka Over Palm

Ka Pili Kai
Dec 2025

Two children wearing rainboots playing in a muddy field

Soil bacteria and fungi emerge as a top predictor of childhood allergic disease

AGU Newsroom
Dec 2025

rows of elevated solar panels cast strips of shade over rows of low-growing crops on a sunny farm

Solar panels over crops may boost farmworkers’ comfort

AGU Newsroom
Dec 2025

A triangular sign on a wooden stake in front of the ocean, designating a marine sanctuary

For Australia’s marine life, “safe zones” from climate change may disappear within 15 years

AGU Newsroom
Nov 2025

A lone hiker in a desert landscape

Parched soils can spark hot drought a nation away

AGU Newsroom
Oct 2025

A man in Kashmir, India, cooks on a traditional biomass-burning stove, while a gas burner rests on the floor to the right

Gas Versus Biomass Cooking—Landmark Trial Yields Unexpected Results

Engineering
Sep 2025

A pile of food waste in the Earthflow industrial composting machine

Closing the Loop: From waste to food security

Ka Pili Kai
Aug. 2025

Cover of the English translation of The Ethical Framework Principles for
Climate Intervention Research.

AGU Posts Principles to Guide—and Foster—Geoengineering Research

Engineering
June 2025

A silhouette of an adult male deer standing beneath an oak tree

During a baby oak’s first summer drought, a little leaf munching may help it survive

Science
Dec. 2024

two adult sperm whales swimming side by side

Why are whales eating plastic bags? They may 'sound' like dinner.

National Geographic
Nov. 2024

The research platform FLIP in vertical orientation, with its top 55 ft protruding vertically above the ocean's surface

(Audio) Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship’

Science Magazine Podcast
Nov. 2024

the research platform known as FLIP in vertical orientation, with its stern submerged and its top 55 feet protruding above the ocean surface

Saved from the scrapyard, this famed ‘flipping ship’ gets a second shot at ocean research

Science
Nov. 2024

a water anole lizard underwater, breathing and re-inhaling a bubble over its snout

These lizards blow bubbles underwater and use them like scuba tanks

Science
Sep. 2024

a pile of ashwagandha roots on a white surface

Can taking ashwagandha supplements improve health?

Science News
Sep. 2024

The Tara Polar Station under construction in a shipyard in Cherbourg, France

Arctic ecosystems get long-term look with drifting research station

Science
Sep. 2024

An artist’s reconstruction shows what Pegasus volans — or, at least, the front half of it preserved in the fossil record — might have looked like in life, complete with guts that hang externally from the main body.

Despite new clues, this ancient fish has stumped scientists for centuries

Science News
Sep. 2024

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