The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) invite manuscripts for a new, first-of-its-kind, special collection focused on climate change in the United States. This effort aims to sustain the momentum of the sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA), the authors and staff of which were dismissed earlier this week by the Trump Administration. The new special collection does not replace the NCA but instead creates a mechanism for this important work to continue.

- Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them

- Fossilised footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground

- Tracks of giant ground-stalkers, comb-jawed coastal waders, and specialised shell crushers, shed light on how pterosaurs lived, moved, and evolved

A new study, led by Professor Mike Kendall from the Department of Earth Sciences, has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption.

The research team compared the earthquake signals during two eruptions of Ontake Volcano in Japan, one of which was a small eruption and the other of which was explosive.

From this, they were able to identify that shear-wave splitting parameters showed differences depending on the size of the eruption.

The study, published this week in the journal Seismica, proposes that the monitoring of this signal would provide a useful early warning of dangerous volcanic eruptions.

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal’s size and chemical makeup can play an important role in determining whether it’s preserved for millions of years—or lost to time.