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Overpumping of groundwater during a severe drought caused parts of aquifers beneath the Sacramento Valley to collapse. Credit: Lance Cheung, USDA/Flickr , Public Domain

The Swift Observatory has observed the transient high-energy universe for more than 20 years. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

New research suggests that microbes in soils take up 40–45 gigatons of global methane every year, significantly higher than previous estimates. Credit: Dylan de Jonge / Unsplash

Active crustal deformation in the Eastern and Southern Alps demonstrating rigid block tectonics with indentation and lateral (out of orogen) crustal extrusion tectonics as the main players. Credit: Grützner et al. [2026] , Figure 17

Screenshot of the video of the 18 August 2026 gold mine landslide at the Zamboye (Zamboï) mining site in the Central African Republic.

Rapid rock uplift biases estimate of channel steepness—numerical simulations predict that faster uplift generates longer hillslopes that extend well beyond the arbitrarily fixed catchment area that is used to mark where channels begin. The resulting estimates of local “channel” steepness thus also partly represents that of nearby hillslopes. Credit: Fox et al. [2026] , Figure 1

The 22 January 2026 landslide at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. Image from the TCC external review.

The Arctic Report Card, which tracks how Arctic ecosystems, weather, communities, and climate signals are changing over time, will still be published despite a lack of support from NOAA. Credit: NASA/GSFC, Public Domain

The aftermath of the TSF failure at the Samancor Dikwena Chrome Mine tailings storage facility near Brits. Image released by the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources on social media.

“Snow eaters,” or heat waves distinguished by anomalously high temperatures during spring and early summer, are becoming more common in the western United States under climate change, new research shows. Credit: Jim Mullhaupt/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The dam wall collapse responsible for the TSF failure at the Samancor Dikwena tailings storage facility near Brits. Still from a video collected by Iaan Myburgh.

To study mercury accumulation, researchers collected sediment cores along the Antarctic Peninsula, part of which is pictured here in satellite imagery. Credit: European Union. Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery - Processed by @DEFIS_EU

Number of fatal coastal cliff failure events and fatalities globally binned per year. From Reiss et al. (2026).

Structure of turbulent “braids” connecting the cores of a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability from (top) multibeam echosounding data near the mouth of the Connecticut River and (bottom) high-resolution numerical simulations. The horizontal scale of the images is a few meters. Credit: Lefauve et al. [2026] , modified from Figure 16 (a, b)

Using more granular temperature data and broader definitions of heat waves, researchers took a closer look at the link between extreme heat events and asthma hospitalizations in Baltimore. Credit: Chesapeake Bay Program/Flickr , CC BY-NC 2.0

Uplifted coral terraces along the coast of Espiritu Santo preserve a record of past sea level, reef growth, and tectonic motion in the southwest Pacific. Credit: Kaustubh Thirumalai