Earth Science News
May 9, 2024
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May 8, 2024 — Episodes of heavy snowfall and rain likely contributed to a swarm of earthquakes over the past several years in northern Japan, researchers find. Their study shows climate conditions could initiate some ...
May 8, 2024 — Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience. Scientists completed a study of how well vegetation survived ...
May 8, 2024 — Ancient, expansive tracts of continental crust called cratons have helped keep Earth's continents stable for billions of years, even as landmasses shift, mountains rise and oceans form. A new ...
May 7, 2024 — In the ever-expanding search for energy resources, a new study has emerged from Mozambique's Maniamba Basin. Mozambique's Maniamba Basin could be a big source of natural ...
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May 7, 2024 — A research group explores how the makeup of rocks, specifically their permeability -- or how easily fluids can flow through them -- affects the ...
May 6, 2024 — Earth scientists have long turned to minute differences in hydrogen atoms to explore the ancient history of our planet. A new study suggests that these same tiny atoms might also lead to new ways to ...
May 1, 2024 — A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...
May 1, 2024 — A study describes a new computer algorithm which can be applied to Earth System Models to drastically reduce the time needed to prepare these in ...
May 1, 2024 — A research team has found that ancient rocks and fossils from long-extinct marine reptiles in Angola clearly show a key part of Earth's past -- the ...
May 3, 2024 — A new study of air pollution in U.S. homes reveals how much gas and propane stoves increase people's exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant linked to childhood asthma. Even in bedrooms far from ...
May 3, 2024 — Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period -- 635 to 541 million years ago -- diversified ...
May 2, 2024 — On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the Nevada desert was the launch of the next set of experiments by the National Nuclear Security Administration, with ...
May 2, 2024 — Some of the ocean's tiniest organisms get swept into underwater currents that act as a conduit that shuttles them from the sunny surface to deeper, ...
May 2, 2024 — The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick -- is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many ...
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May 2, 2024 — Human activities account for 20% to more than 60% of toxic thallium entering the Baltic Sea over the past eight decades, according to new research. Currently, the amount of thallium, which is ...
May 1, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica, which was nearly twice the size of Wales and occurred during the winters of 2016 ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — The link between massive flood basalt volcanism and the end-Triassic (201 million years ago) mass-extinction is commonly accepted. However, exactly how volcanism led to the collapse of ecosystems and ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Dust can have a huge impact on local air quality, food security, energy supply and public health. Previous studies have found that dust levels are decreasing across India, particularly northern ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Researchers have published a comprehensive study on the invasion of lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting a rapid spread and the potential ecological impacts. The research shows the ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Hydrologists predict human-induced underground fluid fluxes to rise with climate change mitigation strategies like carbon ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists are using artificial intelligence software to analyze plant root systems, laying out a protocol that can be applied to gather data on crop and model plant phenotypes (physical ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. They carve valleys and canyons, create floodplains and deltas, and transport sediment from the uplands to the ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — As wildfires in Siberia become more common, global climate modeling estimates significant impacts on climate, air quality, health, and economies in East Asia and across the northern ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists demonstrated the first-ever remote observations of the fine-scale structure at the base of clouds. The results show that the air-cloud interface is a transition zone where aerosol ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Powerful monsoon winds, strengthened by a warming climate, are lofting unexpectedly large quantities of ozone-depleting substances high into the atmosphere over East Asia, according to new research. ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Warming temperatures are causing a steady rise in copper, zinc and sulfate in the waters of Colorado mountain streams affected by acid rock drainage. Concentrations of these metals have roughly ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Astrophysicists have made a significant step toward solving the last puzzle in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theory by observing the weak to strong transition in the space plasma turbulence ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A study of shallow-water fish communities on rocky reefs in south-eastern Australia has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate Australian ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area. But in many places, climate change and ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Researchers who study Earth's biosphere tend to operate from one of three scientific cultures, each with distinct ways of conducting science, and which have been operating mostly independently ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Tectonically active mountains play an important role in the natural CO2 regulation of the atmosphere. Competing processes take place here: At Earth's surface, erosion drives weathering processes ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Researchers have found that modern weather models can accurately predict the energy that Earth emits and reflects into space, which directly affects the movements of low Earth-orbiting (LEO) ...
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Warming Arctic Reduces Dust Levels in Parts of the Planet
- Unveiling the Lionfish Invasion in the Mediterranean Sea
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Human Activities Have an Intense Impact on Earth's Deep Subsurface Fluid Flow
- Artificial Intelligence Helps Scientists Engineer Plants to Fight Climate Change
- Managing Meandering Waterways in a Changing World
- Modeling Broader Effects of Wildfires in Siberia
- Researchers Find Oldest Undisputed Evidence of Earth's Magnetic Field
- High-Resolution Lidar Sees Birth Zone of Cloud Droplets
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste
- Asian Monsoon Lofts Ozone-Depleting Substances to Stratosphere
- Warming Climate Is Putting More Metals Into Colorado's Mountain Streams
- Toward Unification of Turbulence Framework -- Weak-to-Strong Transition Discovered in Turbulence
- Tropical Fish Are Invading Australian Ocean Water
Monday, April 22, 2024
- World's Oases Threatened by Desertification, Even as Humans Expand Them
- To Accelerate Biosphere Science, Reconnect Three Scientific Cultures
Friday, April 19, 2024
- The Italian Central Apennines as a Source of CO2
- Weather Prediction Models Can Also Forecast Satellite Displacements
- Warming of Antarctic Deep-Sea Waters Contribute to Sea Level Rise in North Atlantic, Study Finds
- Scientists Trigger Mini-Earthquakes in the Lab
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2
- Unique Field Study Shows How Climate Change Affects Fire-Impacted Forests
- Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Researchers Shine Light on Rapid Changes in Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems
- CO2 Worsens Wildfires by Helping Plants Grow
- Fires Pose Growing Worldwide Threat to Wildland-Urban Interface
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Hidden Threat: Global Underground Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise
- GeoAI Technologies for Sustainable Urban Development
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- New Radar Analysis Method Can Improve Winter River Safety
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Retention Ponds Can Deliver a Substantial Reduction in Tire Particle Pollution
- Africa's Iconic Flamingos Threatened by Rising Lake Levels
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Rock Permeability, Microquakes Link May Be a Boon for Geothermal Energy
- Tropical Coral-Infecting Parasites Discovered in Cold Marine Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Pacific Cities Much Older Than Previously Thought
- Novel UV Broadband Spectrometer Revolutionizes Air Pollutant Analysis
- New Approach Needed to Save Australia's Non-Perennial Rivers
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Scientist Helps Link Climate Change to Madagascar's Megadrought
- Humans Can Increase Biodiversity, Archaeological Study Shows
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Climate Change Threatens Antarctic Meteorites
- Boreal Forest and Tundra Regions Worst Hit Over Next 500 Years of Climate Change, Study Shows
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Ocean Waves Propel PFAS Back to Land
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Ocean Floor a 'reservoir' Of Plastic Pollution
- Researchers Envision Sci-Fi Worlds Involving Changes to Atmospheric Water Cycle
- Tracing the Largest Solar Storm in Modern Times from Tree Rings in Lapland
- Adult Fish Struggle to Bounce Back in Marine Protected Areas
- New Method Reveals Hidden Activity of Life Below Ground
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- 'Tug of War' Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
- For Mining in Arid Regions to Be Responsible, We Must Change How We Think About Water
- California Leads U.S. Emissions of Little-Known Greenhouse Gas
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- New Step in Tectonic Squeeze That Turns Seafloor Into Mountains
- A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models
- Scientists' Urgent Call: End Destruction and Forge a Just, Sustainable Future
Monday, April 1, 2024
Friday, March 29, 2024
- Blueprint for Mandating Indoor Air Quality for Public Buildings in Form of Standards
- How Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Can Contribute to the Variability of Jet Streams in the Northern Hemisphere
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Going 'back to the Future' To Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef
- Open Waste Burning Linked to Air Pollution in Northwestern Greenland
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Heat, Cold Extremes Hold Untapped Potential for Solar and Wind Energy
- Evolution of the Most Powerful Ocean Current on Earth
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Mathematical Innovations Enable Advances in Seismic Activity Detection
- Scientists on the Hunt for Evidence of Quantum Gravity's Existence at the South Pole
- New Maps Help Decision-Makers Factor Albedo Into Tree-Planting Decisions
- Climate Change Will See Australia's Soil Emit CO2 and Add to Global Warming
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Global Study of Coastal Seas as Carbon Dioxide Reservoirs
- Droughts in Europe Could Be Avoided With Faster Emissions Cuts
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- New Geological Study: Scandinavia Was Born in Greenland
- Species Diversity Promotes Ecosystem Stability
- Satellite Data Assimilation Improves Forecasts of Severe Weather
- Forest, Stream Habitats Keep Energy Exchanges in Balance, Global Team Finds
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Deep Earth Electrical Grid Mystery Solved
- Sea Surface Temperature Research Provides Clear Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Change
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Monday, March 18, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
- Even Inactive Smokers Are Densely Colonized by Microbial Communities
- Arctic Nightlife: Seabird Colony Bursts With Sound at Night
- The Atlas of Unburnable Oil in the World
- Protein Fragments ID Two New 'extremophile' Microbes--and May Help Find Alien Life
- Groundbreaking Study Reveals Extensive Leatherback Turtle Activity Along U.S. Coastline
Thursday, March 14, 2024
- Information Overload Is a Personal and Societal Danger
- Surprising Insights About Debris Flows on Mars
- Tropical Birds Could Tolerate Warming Better Than Expected, Study Suggests
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- Sulfur and the Origin of Life
- Asian Aerosols' Impact on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
- With Discovery of Roundworms, Great Salt Lake's Imperiled Ecosystem Gets More Interesting
- Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
- 'Find Pearls in the Soil' Unveiling the Magic of Hydrogen Production from Municipal Sewage
- Grounding Zone Discovery Explains Accelerated Melting Under Greenland's Glaciers
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
- Giant Sequoias Are a Rapidly Growing Feature of the UK Landscape
- Mars Attracts: How Earth's Interactions With the Red Planet Drive Deep-Sea Circulation
- Scientists Propose New Theory That Explains Sand Ripples on Mars and on Earth