AGU's Eos

2 days ago | eos.org | Roberto González

After 5 years of organizing TierraFest, an annual event that celebrates the Earth sciences in Mexico, one of the things Raiza Pilatowsky Gruner has learned is that when it comes to communicating knowledge about our environment, “we scientists are not the people with the greatest authority.

6 days ago | eos.org | Matthew Francis

The cold outer reaches of the solar system are home to a plethora of small worlds, many of which have moons of their own. For a few, the moon is massive enough to make the pair into a binary; the Pluto-Charon system is the most famous of those. And a small icy body named Lempo is a trinary: three objects of comparable mass in mutual orbit.

1 week ago | eos.org | Rebecca Dzombak

The use of solar power is growing rapidly, especially in developing regions in the tropics, as countries work toward meeting carbon neutrality goals. But according to new research, solar power use is also accompanied by solar power shortages, or “droughts,” when demand exceeds supply for at least 3 days. Such shortages can leave millions without access to cooling or cooking abilities. Lei et al.

1 week ago | eos.org | Veronika Meduna

Each year in early March, when summer turns to fall in the Southern Hemisphere, New Zealand glaciologists gather at an airfield in Queenstown to embark on a predawn flight along the spine of the Southern Alps. For hours, they twist in the Cessna’s narrow seats to train cameras on glaciers clinging to mountaintops. The images capture the glaciers’ vanishing contours and the shifting snowline—the demarcation between the remains of the winter snowpack and exposed glacial ice.

1 week ago | eos.org | Aaron Sidder

The 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake struck southern Türkiye and Syria along the East Anatolian Fault. The magnitude 7.8 quake and its magnitude 7.5 aftershock devastated the region, killing tens of thousands of people and destroying hundreds of thousands of buildings. Before the earthquake, seismologists warned that the area was ripe for a major seismic event. The region sits at the junction of the Anatolian, Arabian, and Eurasian plates and is rife with faults.