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

“Thirstwaves” Are Growing More Common Across the United States
Like heat waves, these periods of high atmospheric demand for water can damage crops and ecosystems and increase pressure on water resources. New research shows they’re becoming more severe.
7 April 2025
Editors' Highlights

Deflected Dikes Perturb the Plumbing System
Incomplete Arctic sea ice recovery results in equatorward-shifted winter jets. The North Atlantic jet shift is particularly uncertain due to the ocean circulation acting as an additional driver.
11 April 2025

Martian Magmas Live Long and Prosper
10 April 2025
Editors' Vox

An Earth System Science Approach to Geophysics
With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.
1 April 2025

用分布式声学传感探测地下奥秘
20 March 2025

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
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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