Mountains notice changes in air pressure too. Recently, USGS scientists working on the Slumgullion Landslide in Colorado, US, have found that periods of low atmospheric pressure can trigger landslides. Landslides...

In soil and sediment studies, geophysical mapping is often used as a prerequisite to focus or guide traditional sampling and coring of the locations of interest. This way, synoptic and...

As part of an ongoing project to bring to city managers, citizens, tourists and others geo-data of the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the authors designed a geo-database accessible...

Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that is exactly what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed as it passed over the Taklimakan Desert in western China...

European Space Agency (ESA)’s ice mission has been used to create a new gravity map, exposing thousands of previously unchartered ‘seamounts’, ridges and deep ocean structures. This new picture of...

One year on from the biggest UK storm surge for 60 years, new aerial photos have revealed details of breaches to the natural and manmade coastal defences on part of...

Nepal is prone to earthquakes and throughout the centuries the country’s capital city, Kathmandu, has been regularly struck by earthquakes which appear to have similar epicentres and behaviour. The portion...

Caves are important in a wide variety of fields, ranging from construction engineering to mineral exploration and archaeology. Despite the scientific importance of caves, geologists believe that only a relatively...

Australia now has a full suite of new gravity grids at the national scale, being the first publicly released since 2011. The new gravity data adds to the arsenal of...

Bathymetric data in the shallow water zone is of increasing importance to support various applications such as safety of navigation, reconnaissance surveys, coastal zone management or hydrodynamic modelling. A gap...