Earth Science News
March 23, 2025
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Mar. 21, 2025 — Despite decades of warnings about overfishing, Southeast Asia's capture fisheries have proven remarkably ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...
Mar. 20, 2025 — According to a predictive model, the microalgae present in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO2 emissions, thanks to their photosynthetic activity. This conclusion was reached by basing the work on in situ experiments and the various ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — Researchers injected CO2 gas into seawater while applying an electrical current. The process transformed dissolved ions, minerals in seawater into clusters of solid particles. The clusters hold over ...
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Mar. 13, 2025 — At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Researchers used community input to design Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) air-quality model experiments. Community asked for ACT policy simulations that convert 48% of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter Program data, a study shows that ocean currents off Florida's East Coast ...
Mar. 14, 2025 — A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapor leading to particulate matter levels across the city being underestimated by up to ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — A study has determined that the widely used tools available to businesses for assessing their biodiversity impacts depend on broad assumptions and ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Cloudy areas over oceans are reflecting less sunlight to space than ...
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Mar. 11, 2025 — On decadal timescales, the loss of Arctic ice favors the climate of the south-west of the United States -- and California in particular -- becoming drier on average, especially in winter. This ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Aerospace engineers found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate ...
Mar. 7, 2025 — An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. However, a major new study reveals that forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — A collaborative research team has introduced a nitrogen-centric framework that explains the light-absorbing effects of atmospheric organic aerosols. This groundbreaking study reveals that ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 million years ago. Their findings reveal the long, drawn-out process of ecosystem recovery following one of the most ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — A new seismic study of Singapore could guide urban growth and renewable energy development in the coastal city nation, where 5.6 million residents live within an area of 734 square ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth manner. But a new study has ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — A new study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting ...
Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...
Mar. 3, 2025 — Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators, ...
Feb. 28, 2025 — Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. By chemically analyzing crystals in ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — A study shows birds worldwide make strategic decisions about how they live based on their environmental conditions. Some live fast, die young, and leave as many chicks as possible. Others live long ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — An international team of researchers has successfully captured the internal structure of the longest-runout sediment flow ever recorded on Earth. Using seismic measurements, the researchers have for ...
Feb. 24, 2025 — It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...
Feb. 24, 2025 — New analysis of ancient fossilized rocks known as stromatolites, preserved in southern Zimbabwe, suggests strong links to hydrothermal nutrient recycling, 'meaning that early life may in part ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
- Climate Change Will Reduce the Number of Satellites That Can Safely Orbit in Space
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Tropical Forests in the Americas Are Struggling to Keep Pace With Climate Change
- Researchers Reveal Nitrogen's Dominant Role in Global Organic Aerosol Absorption
- World's Oldest Impact Crater Found, Rewriting Earth's Ancient History
- Plants Struggled for Millions of Years After the World's Worst Climate Catastrophe
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Seismic Study of Singapore Could Guide Urban Construction and Renewable Energy Development
- Researchers Quantify the Way Rivers Bend, Opening Up the Possibility for Identifying Origins of Channels on Other Planets
- The Ozone Hole Is Healing, Thanks to Global Reduction of CFCs
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Monday, March 3, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve
- Environment Nudges Birds to Fast, or Slow, Life Lane
- Longest-Runout Undersea Sediment Flows Analyzed in Unprecedented Detail
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Mega-Iceberg from Antarctica on Collision Course With South Georgia: Harbinger of Things to Come?
- Research Provides New Detail on the Impact of Volcanic Activity on Early Marine Life
Friday, February 21, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Nitrogen Fixation on Marine Particles Is Important in the Global Ocean
- New Process Gets Common Rocks to Trap Carbon Rapidly, Cheaply
- 'Glacial Fracking': A Hidden Source of Arctic Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Repeated Invasions Shape NZ's Bird Life
- Rapid Environmental Change Can Threaten Even a Peaceful Daisyworld
- Study Reveals Extent of Ecological Damage from Niger Delta Oil Spills
Monday, February 17, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Scientists Use Distant Sensor to Monitor American Samoa Earthquake Swarm
- Research Reveals How Earth Got Its Ice Caps
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- New England's Salt Marshes Store 10 Million Cars' Worth of Carbon -- And Add Another 15,000-Worth Every Year
- Research Team Identifies Carbonate-Dissolving Microorganisms
- Protected Habitats Aren't Enough to Save Endangered Species, Study Finds
- Restoring Wildlife Habitats in Wealthy Nations Could Drive Extinctions in Species-Rich Regions, Experts Warn
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Great Barrier Reef?
- Models Show Intensifying Wildfires in a Warming World Due to Changes in Vegetation and Humidity; Only a Minor Role for Lightning
- PIK PR: Little Potential for 'climate Plantations' Within Planetary Boundaries
- Arctic Cyclones Could Be Missing Link in Sea Ice Depletion Models
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Anomaly in the Deep Sea
- New Autonomous System to Monitor Arctic's Melting Ice
- Earth's Inner Core Is Undergoing a Transformation
Friday, February 7, 2025
- An Arctic 'beyond Recognition' By 2100
- Twenty Years On, Biodiversity Struggles to Take Root in Restored Wetlands
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Some Species of Baleen Whales Avoid Attracting Killer Whales by Singing Too Low to Be Heard
- New Technology Lights Way for Accelerating Coral Reef Restoration
- Multinational Research Project Shows How Life on Earth Can Be Measured from Space
- How Life's Building Blocks Took Shape on Early Earth: The Limits of Membraneless Polyester Protocell Formation
- Whale Poop Contains Iron That May Have Helped Fertilize Past Oceans
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- Meteorite Discovery Challenges Long-Held Theories on Earth's Missing Elements
- Clean Air Policies Having Unintended Impact Driving Up Wetland Methane Emissions by Up to 34 Million Tons
- Scientists Simulate Asteroid Collision Effects on Climate and Plants
- Plant Power: A New Method to Model How Plants Move Water Globally
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Coal Emissions Cost India Millions in Crop Damages
- Climate Change Is Overhauling Marine Nutrient Cycles
- Scientists Develop Groundbreaking Biosensor for Rare Earth Element Detection
- Half a Degree Further Rise in Global Warming Will Triple Area of Earth Too Hot for Humans
- New Study Assesses Impact of Agricultural Research Investments on Biodiversity, Land Use
- Discovery of Water Droplet Freezing Bridges Atmospheric Science, Climate Solutions
Monday, February 3, 2025
- Life-Bearing Water Arrived on Earth Later Rather Than Sooner
- Global Groundwater Sulfate Distribution Map Uncovers Public Health Risks for 17 Million People
- We Have Underrated the Climate Effects of New Particles in Urban Areas
Friday, January 31, 2025
- How Does the Atmosphere Affect Ocean Weather?
- Carbon Capture from Constructed Wetlands Declines as They Age
Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Groundwater in Arctic Is Delivering More Carbon Into the Ocean Than Was Previously Known
- Earth Scientists Study Sikkim Flood in India to Help Others Prepare for Similar Disasters
- Sharks and Rays Benefit from Global Warming, but Not from CO2 in the Oceans
- Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- Antarctic Fast Ice Secrets
- A Window Into the Future of Amazonia
- Oceanic Plate Between Arabian and Eurasian Continental Plates Is Breaking Away
- Landmark Genetic Study: Fresh Shoots of Hope on the Tree of Life
- Pairing Old and New Technologies Could Unlock Advances in Plankton Science
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Ocean-Surface Warming Four Times Faster Now Than Late-1980s
- Mapping Antarctica's Hidden Ice-Free Lands: A Blueprint for Conservation
Monday, January 27, 2025
- Unveiling Japan's Geological History Through Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits
- Unraveling the Connection Between Canadian Wildfires and Arctic Ice Clouds
- New Weapon Against Harmful Algal Blooms
- Underwater Mud Volcanos Are a Haven for Marine Organisms
- Global Sea Level Very Likely to Rise Between 0.5 and 1.9 Meters by 2100 Under High-Emissions Scenario
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
- Scientists Discover Unique Microbes in Amazonian Peatlands That Could Influence Climate Change
- Researcher Unveiling the Uncharted Reaction Pathways of Carbon Dioxide in Supercritical Water
Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Coastal Waters: An Underestimated Source of Methane
- More Acidic Oceans May Affect the Sex of Oysters
- New Twist in Mystery of Dinosaurs' Origin
- Claims for the World's Deepest Earthquake Challenged by New Analysis
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- New AI Technology Helps Scientists Detect Which Pollutants in England's Lakes Are Most Harmful to Life, and Identify Species Which Are at Highest Risk
- Subterranean 'islands': Strongholds in a Potentially Less Turbulent World
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Here's What's Causing the Great Salt Lake to Shrink
- New Evidence Suggests Megaflood Refilled the Mediterranean Sea Five Million Years Ago
- We Can Make Fertilizer More Efficiently Under the Surface of the Earth
Friday, January 17, 2025
- Technology for Oxidizing Atmospheric Methane Won't Help the Climate
- Research on Past Hurricanes Aims to Reduce Future Risk
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- How Climate Change May Alter Hydrology of Grassland Ecosystems
- Asteroid Impact Sulfur Release Less Lethal in Dinosaur Extinction
- Thawing Permafrost Threatens Up to Three Million People in Arctic Regions
- Speleothem and Ice Cores: Natural Climate Archives Offer New Insights Into the Climate History of Central Europe
- Pioneering Research Exposes Huge Loss of Glaciers in One of the Fastest-Warming Places on Earth