Earth Science News
June 13, 2025
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June 10, 2025 — What if all life on Earth followed a surprisingly simple pattern? New research shows that in every region, species tend to cluster in small hotspots and then gradually thin out. This universal rule applies across drastically different organisms and ...
June 9, 2025 — For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly stayed stable despite extinctions and upheavals. A new study reveals that only twice in 60 million years did environmental ...
June 8, 2025 — Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For decades, scientists puzzled over this D' layer. Now, groundbreaking ...
June 7, 2025 — Scientists have built a lab model that visually tracks how microscopic contact points between fault surfaces evolve during earthquake cycles, revealing the hidden mechanics behind both the slow ...
June 3, 2025 — To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller ...
June 3, 2025 — Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds ...
June 3, 2025 — A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves. Using a brand-new type of satellite altimetry, the ...
May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In the Cape Fold Mountains, we now know that every ...
May 29, 2025 — Scientists have pioneered a new way to breed climate-resilient crops faster by combining plant genebank data with climate and DNA analysis. The method, tested on sorghum, could speed up global efforts to secure food supplies in a changing ...
May 29, 2025 — Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation systems we rely on. Scientists have now used Japan's extensive network of Global ...
May 29, 2025 — Researchers created a detailed physical model that suggests a major Atlantic Ocean current will weaken far less under climate change than indicated by more extreme climate model ...
May 29, 2025 — The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition from water to land. Thanks to new research, scientists believe that ...
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May 29, 2025 — Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world's glacier mass ...
May 29, 2025 — Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...
May 29, 2025 — Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ...
May 29, 2025 — A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...
May 28, 2025 — Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of ...
May 28, 2025 — As rising global temperatures alter ecosystems worldwide, animal species usually have two choices: adapt to changing local conditions or flee to a cooler clime. Ecologists have long assumed that the ...
May 27, 2025 — Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a new study. This discovery broadens our understanding of early human use of whale remains and offers valuable ...
May 27, 2025 — Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world's coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the global ocean -- an area ...
May 23, 2025 — Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab ...
May 22, 2025 — A modeling study shows that global warming will make it harder to reduce ground-level ozone, a respiratory irritant that is a key component of smog, by cutting greenhouse gas ...
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May 23, 2025 — New international research demonstrates global-scale patterns in how El Ni o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences mangrove growth and degradation. Previously, impacts had only been documented at ...
May 23, 2025 — As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt. Salinization of freshwater and soils adversely affects 500 million people around the ...
May 22, 2025 — Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden much deeper in the ground than one would expect. More than 99.999% of ...
May 22, 2025 — From deadly floods in Europe to intensifying tropical cyclones around the world, the climate crisis has made timely and precise forecasting more essential than ever. Yet traditional forecasting ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the ...
May 21, 2025 — A study has found that implementing robust air pollution control measures could mean Southeast Asian countries prevent as many as 36,000 ozone-related premature deaths each year by ...
May 20, 2025 — A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal ...
May 20, 2025 — To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...
May 20, 2025 — The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth, but in recent decades, the region has been rapidly warming, at a rate three to four times faster than the global average. However, current climate ...
May 19, 2025 — New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries -- even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5 C limit, having exceeded ...
May 16, 2025 — A new study reveals that heat-tolerant symbiotic algae may be essential to saving elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) -- a foundational species in Caribbean reef ecosystems -- from the devastating ...
May 16, 2025 — New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease. The study finds ...
May 16, 2025 — How sensitively does organic carbon stored in soils react to changes in temperature and ...
May 16, 2025 — New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of ...
May 16, 2025 — Scientists have decoded the atomic structure of Photosystem I from a 3-billion-year-old cyanobacteria lineage, offering a unique look at early oxygen-producing photosynthesis. The ancient nanodevice, ...
May 16, 2025 — A study has shown scientific knowledge on the conservation of endangered species is often overlooked when not presented in ...
May 15, 2025 — The latest study finds that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas might be higher than previously ...
May 15, 2025 — A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming ...
May 15, 2025 — A new study shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida's Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thousand ...
May 14, 2025 — The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team has analyzed the estimated changes in ...
Friday, May 23, 2025
- El Niño and La Niña Climate Swings Threaten Mangroves Worldwide
- When the Sea Moves Inland: A Global Climate Wake-Up Call from Bangladesh's Delta
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Tapping Into the World's Largest Gold Reserves
- Breakthrough AI Model Could Transform How We Prepare for Natural Disasters
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Fool's Gold: A Hidden Climate Stabilizer
- Southeast Asia Could Prevent Up to 36,000 Ozone-Related Early Deaths a Year by 2050 With Stricter Air Pollution Controls
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Thousands of Animal Species Threatened by Climate Change
- Research Team Traces Evolutionary History of Bacterial Circadian Clock on Ancient Earth
- Clouding the Forecast: Study Reveals Why So Many Climate Models Are Wrong About the Rate of Arctic Warming
Monday, May 19, 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Heat-Tolerant Symbionts a Critical Key to Protecting Florida's Elkhorn Coral from Bleaching During Marine Heatwaves
- Study Reveals Healing the Ozone Hole Helps the Southern Ocean Take Up Carbon
- Rising Temperatures Lead to Unexpectedly Rapid Carbon Release from Soils
- Ancient Ocean Sediments Link Changes in Currents to Cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 Million Years Ago
- Light-to-Electricity Nanodevice Reveals How Earth's Oldest Surviving Cyanobacteria Worked
- Language a Barrier in Biodiversity Work
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- A Vicious Cycle: How Methane Emissions from Warming Wetlands Could Exacerbate Climate Change
- World's Rivers Remapped to Improve Flood Modeling
- Scientists Use Fossils to Assess the Health of Florida's Largest Remaining Seagrass Bed: Surprisingly, It's Doing Well!
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Sharp Depletion in Soil Moisture Drives Land Water to Flow Into Oceans, Contributing to Sea Level Rise
- Tiny Gas Bubbles Reveal Secrets of Hawaiian Volcanoes
- The Ripple Effect of Small Earthquakes Near Major Faults
- Microplastics in Texas Bays Are Being Swept out to Sea
- New Global Model Shows How to Bring Environmental Pressures Back to 2015 Levels by 2050
- Climate Change Is Turning Coastal Lagoons Into 'salty Soup'
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Scientists Define the Ingredients for Finding Natural Clean Hydrogen
- Enhanced Activity in the Upper Atmosphere of Sporadic E Layers During the 2024 Mother's Day Super Geomagnetic Storm
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Study Uncovers Mystery of How Mini Sand Dunes Form
- Microbial 'phosphorus Gatekeeping' Found at Center of Study Exploring 700,000 Years of Iconic Coastline
- It's Not Just El Niño: New Climate Phenomenon Impacts Hawai'i Rainfall
Friday, May 9, 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Sulfur Runoff Amplifies Mercury Concentrations in Florida Everglades
- Waxing and Waning Prairie: New Study Unravels Causes of Ancient Climate Changes
- Database Reveals Vital Ocean Links to Aid Conservation
- Satellites Observe Glacier Committing 'ice Piracy'
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- The Atmospheric Memory That Feeds Billions of People: Newly Discovered Mechanism for Monsoon Rainfall
- Climate Change: Future of Today's Young People
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- AI Has Untapped Potential to Advance Biodiversity Conservation
- Heat and Drought Are Quietly Hurting Crop Yields
- Slickrock: Geologists Explore Why Utah's Wasatch Fault Is Vulnerable to Earthquakes
- Cutting Greenhouse Gases Will Reduce Number of Deaths from Poor Air Quality
Monday, May 5, 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025
- Scientists Discover Key to Taming Unrest at Italy's Campi Flegrei
- Space Junk Falling to Earth Needs to Be Tracked: Meteoroid Sounds Can Help
Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Intensifying Farmland Can Sometimes Degrade Biodiversity More Than Expansion
- Eruption Loading: New Approaches to Earthquake Monitoring at Ontake Volcano, Japan
- Oceans Are Heating Faster in Two Bands Stretching Around Globe
- Lava Flow Jigsaw Puzzle Reveals the Secrets of Shifting Continents
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- One of Earth's Ancient Volcanic Mysteries Solved
- Rare Earth Element Extraction Bolstered by New Research
- 'Scratching' More Than the Ocean's Surface to Map Global Microplastic Movement
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Extreme Monsoon Changes Threaten the Bay of Bengal's Role as a Critical Food Source
- Elephant Instead of Wild Boar? What Could Have Been in Europe
- Geoengineering Technique Could Cool Planet Using Existing Aircraft
- Anatomy of a 'zombie' Volcano: Investigating the Cause of Unrest Inside Uturuncu
- Billion-Year-Old Impact in Scotland Sparks Questions About Life on Land
- Noto Quake 3D Model Adds Dimension to Understand Earthquake Dynamics
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Hotter Temps Trigger Wetlands to Emit More Methane as Microbes Struggle to Keep Up
- World on Course to Trigger Multiple Climate 'tipping Points' Unless Action Accelerates
- Melting Glaciers at the End of the Ice Age May Have Sped Up Continental Drift, Fueled Volcanic Eruptions
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
- How Activity in Earth's Mantle Led the Ancient Ancestors of Elephants, Giraffes, and Humans Into Asia and Africa
- What If Mother Earth Could Sue for Mistreatment?
- Harmful Microplastics Infiltrating Drinking Water
Friday, April 18, 2025
- Lake Deposits Reveal Directional Shaking During Devastating 1976 Guatemala Earthquake
- Seismology: How Wide Are Faults?
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Sunscreen, Clothes and Caves May Have Helped Homo Sapiens Survive 41,000 Years Ago
- Inside Yellowstone's Fiery Heart: Researchers Map Volatile-Rich Cap, Offering Clues to Future Volcanic Activity
- Scientists Find Evidence That Overturns Theories of the Origin of Water on Earth
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Pioneering Research Reveals Arctic Matter Pathways Poised for Major Shifts Amidst Climate Change
- Fishing for Cephalopod DNA Allows for Efficient Marine Surveying
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Hundred-Year Storm Tides Will Occur Every Few Decades in Bangladesh, Scientists Report
- Marine Shipping Emissions on Track to Meet 2030 Goals, but Expected to Miss 2050 Target
- Crustal Brines at an Oceanic Transform Fault
- New Projections Reveal More Extreme Erosion on O'ahu's Shores
- Missing Nitrogen: A Dramatic Game of Cosmic Hide-and-Seek Deep Within Our Planet
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- New Study on Natural Oil Seeps in the Deep Sea
- Caspian Sea Decline Threatens Endangered Seals, Coastal Communities and Industry
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Coral Reefs Exude Myriad Chemicals, Fueling Dynamic Microbial Recycling of Nutrients
- Potable Water Happy Byproduct of Low-Cost Green Hydrogen Technology
- Sink or Swim: The Fate of Sinking Tectonic Plates Depends on Their Ancient Tectonic Histories
- Decarbonization Improves Energy Security for Most Countries
- With New Database Researchers May Be Able to Predict Rare Milky Seas Bioluminescent, Glowing Event
- 8 Million Years of 'Green Arabia'
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Monday, March 31, 2025
- New Warnings of a 'Butterfly Effect' -- In Reverse
- Study Shows Groundwater Gains in Arizona Yet Climate Risks Still Threaten Water Supply
- Thinner Arctic Sea Ice May Affect Global Ocean Circulation
Friday, March 28, 2025
- Global Patterns in Seed Plant Distribution Over Millions of Years
- Drone Experiment Reveals How Greenland Ice Sheet Is Changing