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The catastrophic debris flow that struck Nepal and Tibet today was triggered by the collapse of a glacier high in the mountains.

Loyal readers will have seen the footage of the catastrophic debris flow that struck parts of Tibet and Nepal to...

Source: AGU Advances

Saturn’s moon Enceladus sports a thick shell of ice surrounding a liquid water ocean. As though scraped by an enormous claw, four parallel cracks slash across its south pole. Each about 500 meters deep, 2 kilometers across, and 1...

Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Coastal dunes provide a vital natural buffer against flooding for low-lying infrastructure, yet their capacity to do so varies alongshore ...

Source: Geophysical Research Letters

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Anomalously high and low temperatures affect human habits in myriad ways—forcing us inside, disrupting our sleep, and even exacerbating mental health conditions.

Temperature extremes seem to affect drug use and overdose deaths, too. A new study publi...