Featured Publications
Learn about the latest cutting-edge research published across AGU’s journals and books, as well as updates from editors and staff.
Research Spotlights
Using Algorithms to Help Find Life on Icy Ocean Worlds
Scientists could use machine learning to analyze atmospheric samples in order to help identify microbes on frozen moons. They’re testing the concept using bottles of brine and smelly bacteria.
21 March 2025
Editors' Highlights
Rapid Thunderstorm Charging Produces Strong Gamma‐Ray Glows
A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely resemble terrestrial gamma-ray flashes.
21 March 2025
The Complex Evolution of Debris-Covered Glacier Surfaces
20 March 2025
How (Slow) Earthquakes Get Going
17 March 2025
Explaining Mars’ Mysteriously Magnetic Crust
13 March 2025
Editors' Vox
Announcing the AGU Publications DEIA Reviewer Board
19 March 2025
Erosion: An Overlooked Contributor to the Carbon Cycle
13 March 2025
Topography and the Terrestrial Water Cycle
12 March 2025
Asian Megadeltas: Tackling Coastal Flooding Challenges
11 March 2025
Videos
How New Data Transformed Our Understanding of Alaska’s Tectonics: Insights from Leading Researchers
Tectonics and Seismic Structure of Alaska and Northwestern Canada: EarthScope and Beyond explores the impact of data from the EarthScope program on understandings of the region’s subduction zones, crustal deformation, and earthquake risks.
Featured Books
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