Mangroves bury large amounts of carbon, but how much of this benefit is offset by methane emissions? Our new Nature Geoscience study reveals that tree stems release substantial CH4, a missing flux tha...

An international research team has uncovered the main mechanism behind the algae blooms of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. Identification of the climatic conditions that facilitate this phenomenon ...

The aftermath of volcanic eruptions often reveals critical gaps in hazard and risk management. Effective global implementation of the lessons learned from disasters triggered by natural hazards is lon...

Nature Geoscience spoke with Daniel Andrade (Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador), Lucia Capra (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico), Kyoko Kataoka (Niigata Universi...

Nature Geoscience spoke with Jonatan Lassa, a scientist working on risk and disaster governance at Earth Sciences New Zealand; Carina Farnley, an interdisciplinary scientist researching natural hazard...

Nature Geoscience - Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards

Volcanic disaster risk reduction has greater impact when rooted in community experience. We must recognize the importance of Indigenous knowledge to shape more culturally situated, equitable, respectf...

Since the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption that killed over 23,000 people in Armero, Colombia, risk communication has become central to volcanic crisis management. Despite the development of effective to...

The eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia in November 1985 killed an estimated 25,000 people in the town of Armero. Forty years on, Colombia has transformed its geological risk management in...