National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics (COSEG) provides independent advice to all levels of ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

Geophysics is broadly the study of the physics of planetary bodies and atmospheres, including the flow of energy through these systems. The term may also be used more narrowly to describe the ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Global average temperature maps are available for annual and seasonal temperature. Long-term averages have been calculated over the standard 30-year period 1961-1990. A 30-year period is used as it ...

Global and hemispheric temperature timeseries are available for annual, seasonal and individual months from 1850 to present. Seasonal means are December-February (DJF), March-May (MAM), June-August ...