Earth Science News
July 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 — An international team of researchers has found that nitrogen emissions from fertilizers and fossil fuels have a net cooling effect on the climate. But they warn increasing atmospheric nitrogen has ...
July 25, 2024 — A new study finds disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier ...
July 25, 2024 — Newly announced research examining greenhouse gas emissions from the drying lake bed of Great Salt Lake, Utah, calculates that 4.1 million tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were released in 2020. This research suggests that drying ...
July 22, 2024 — Biologists who set out to better understand the effects of climate change on plant species in tropical mountain regions found that even small variations in temperature and moisture can have massive ...
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July 24, 2024 — New research has found that the Southern Ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide (CO2) than previously thought. Using direct measurements of CO2 exchange, ...
July 24, 2024 — New research underscores the close relationship between dust plumes transported from the Sahara Desert in Africa, and rainfall from tropical cyclones along the U.S. Gulf Coast and ...
July 24, 2024 — A new analysis of rocks thought to be at least 2.5 billion years old helps clarify the chemical history of Earth's mantle -- the geologic layer ...
July 24, 2024 — Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the ...
July 23, 2024 — Fluids circulating underground change rocks over the course of time. These processes must be taken into account if they are to be used as a climate archive. Researchers have used 380-million-year-old ...
July 23, 2024 — A prototype device harvests drinking water from the atmosphere, even in arid ...
July 22, 2024 — A newly enhanced database is expected to help wildfire managers and scientists better predict where and when wildfires may occur by incorporating ...
July 22, 2024 — Climate change will have a considerable influence on the biodiversity and productivity of meadows and pastures. However, according to the results of the large-scale climate and land use experiment ...
July 22, 2024 — A new analysis sheds light on major shortfalls of a recently proposed approach to capture CO2 from air and directly convert it to fuel using ...
July 22, 2024 — An international team of researchers has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen -- 13,000 feet below the surface. Discovery challenges long-held assumptions that ...
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July 24, 2024 — Lead levels in moss are as much as 600 times higher in older Portland, Oregon, neighborhoods where lead-sheathed telecommunications cables were once used compared to lead levels in nearby rural ...
July 19, 2024 — Space storms could soon be forecasted with greater accuracy than ever before thanks to a big leap forward in our understanding of exactly when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth. Scientists say ...
July 18, 2024 — Plants and microbes are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Now, researchers found that iron oxide in soil performs the same ...
July 17, 2024 — Polyphenols are generally toxic to microorganisms. In peatlands, scientists thought microorganisms avoided this toxicity by degrading polyphenols using an oxygen-dependent enzyme, and thus that ...
July 17, 2024 — As sea ice disappears and grows less reflective, the Arctic has lost around a quarter of its cooling power since 1980, and the world has lost up to 15%, according to new ...
July 17, 2024 — When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building ...
July 17, 2024 — New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American ...
July 16, 2024 — A new global assessment of scientific literature finds that nature-based solutions (NbS) are an economically effective method to mitigate risks from a range of disasters -- from floods and hurricanes ...
July 16, 2024 — Researchers examine the specific impacts of microplastics on the geophysics of sea foam formation in the critical zone where water meets air in the top layer of the ocean. They devised two ...
July 16, 2024 — A new study has unveiled surprising findings about mercury pollution: where it comes from and how it moves through the environment vary significantly depending on the ecosystem. In drier regions, ...
July 15, 2024 — As the planet continues to warm due to human-driven climate change, accurate computer climate models will be key in helping illuminate exactly how the climate will continue to be altered in the years ...
July 15, 2024 — Oxygen is a fundamental requirement of life, and the loss of oxygen in water, referred to as aquatic deoxygenation, is a threat to life at all levels. In fact, researchers describe how ongoing ...
July 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a new mechanism by which particles are formed around the ...
July 12, 2024 — In a revelation highlighting the fragile balance of our planet's atmosphere, scientists have uncovered an unexpected link between massive wildfire events and the chemistry of the ozone layer. ...
July 12, 2024 — Methane, a strong greenhouse gas that naturally escapes from the bottom of the North Sea, is affected by the pressure of high or low tide. Methane emissions from the seafloor can be just easily three ...
July 12, 2024 — Lakes, with their rich biodiversity and important ecological services, face a concerning trend: rapidly increasing temperatures. A recent study by limnologists and climate modelers reveals that if ...
July 11, 2024 — Without additional regulation, burning ammonia in ship engines could cause serious impacts on air quality that could result in more than 600,000 additional premature deaths per year, according to new ...
July 11, 2024 — Researchers have found that the key to a quick and cost-effective mapping of biodiversity has been right in front of our eyes all along, but at the same time invisible -- i.e., in the air that ...
July 11, 2024 — Researchers developed TetrapodTraits -- a global database of animals with four feet -- which can now be applied for better ecology, evolution and conservation ...
July 10, 2024 — Findings has critical implications for predicting extreme weather events such as hurricanes and heavy ...
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- Although Tiny, Peatland Microorganisms Have a Big Impact on Climate
- Sea Ice's Cooling Power Is Waning Faster Than Its Area of Extent
- Diatom Surprise Could Rewrite the Global Carbon Cycle
- Research Tracks 66 Million Years of Mammalian Diversity
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- Nature-Based Solutions to Disaster Risk from Climate Change Are Cost Effective
- Microplastic Pollution Increases Sea Foam Height and Stability
- Local Dragonflies Expose Mercury Pollution Patterns
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Scientists Discover Missing Piece in Climate Models
- Loss of Oxygen in Lakes and Oceans a Major Threat to Ecosystems, Society, and Planet
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Scientists Find New Way Global Air Churn Makes Particles
- Complex Impact of Large Wildfires on Ozone Layer Dynamics
- High and Low Tide Cause Low and High Methane Fluxes
- Unprecedented Warming Threatens Earth's Lakes and Their Ecosystems
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Study Finds Health Risks in Switching Ships from Diesel to Ammonia Fuel
- Mapping the World's Fungi from Air Samples
- Global Database Reveals Large Gaps in Our Knowledge of Four-Footed Animals
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- New Study Provides Enhanced Understanding of Tropical Atmospheric Waves
- The Gulf Stream Is Wind-Powered and Could Weaken from Climate Change
- Cutting Farm Nitrous Oxide Emissions Helps Climate and Ozone Layer
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- Building Materials for Water-Rich Planets in the Early Solar System
- Mining Rare Earth Metals from Electronic Waste
Monday, July 8, 2024
- Weaker Ocean Circulation Could Enhance Carbon Dioxide Buildup in the Atmosphere, Study Finds
- Exploring the Radiative Effects of Precipitation on Arctic Amplification and Energy Budget
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Retreating Glaciers: Fungi Enhance Carbon Storage in Young Arctic Soils
- Early-Onset El Niño Means Warmer Winters in East Asia, and Vice Versa
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
- Study Explores What Motivates People to Watch Footage of Disasters and Extreme Weather
- Exploring the Chemical Space of the Exposome: How Far Have We Gone?
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Organic Material from Mars Reveals the Likely Origin of Life's Building Blocks
- Ocean Acidification Turns Fish Off Coral Reefs
- Dampening the 'seeds' Of Hurricanes
- Shrinking Glaciers: Microscopic Fungi Enhance Soil Carbon Storage in New Landscapes Created by Shrinking Arctic Glaciers
- Researchers Identify Unique Survival Strategies Adopted by Fish in the World's Warmest Waters
- Sixty-Million-Year-Old Grape Seeds Reveal How the Death of the Dinosaurs May Have Paved the Way for Grapes to Spread
Friday, June 28, 2024
- Climate Change to Shift Tropical Rains Northward
- Ecologists Reconstruct the History of Biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago and Its Rise as a Hotspot
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Common Plastics Could Passively Cool and Heat Buildings With the Seasons
- New Twists on Tornadoes: Earth Scientist Studies Why U.S. Has So Many Tornadoes
- Why the Harsh Snowball Earth Kick-Started Our Earliest Multicellular Ancestors
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- El Niño Forecasts Extended to 18 Months With Innovative Physics-Based Model
- Future Risk of Coral Bleaching Set to Intensify Globally
- Ocean's Loss of Oxygen Caused Massive Jurassic Extinction: Could It Happen Again?
- Shocked Quartz Reveals Evidence of Historical Cosmic Airburst
- Iceland's Volcano Eruptions May Last Decades
- Small, Adsorbent 'fins' Collect Humidity Rather Than Swim Through Water
- Underwater Mountains Have a Big Impact on Ocean Circulation
Monday, June 24, 2024
Friday, June 21, 2024
- Human Activity: A Double-Edged Sword in the Face of Drought
- Restoring the Great Salt Lake Would Have Environmental Justice as Well as Ecological Benefits
Thursday, June 20, 2024
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Monday, June 17, 2024
- Climate Change: Rising Temperatures May Impact Groundwater Quality
- Understanding the Green Sahara's Collapse
- An Earthquake Changed the Course of the Ganges: Could It Happen Again?
Friday, June 14, 2024
- Quantum Entanglement Measures Earth Rotation
- Scientists Unravel Drivers of the Global Zinc Cycle in Our Oceans, With Implications for a Changing Climate
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- A Conservation Market Could Incentivize Global Ocean Protection
- The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms
- Video Analysis of Iceland 2010 Eruption Could Improve Volcanic Ash Forecasts for Aviation Safety
- Ancient Ocean Slowdown Warns of Future Climate Chaos
- Quantum Data Assimilation: A Quantum Leap in Weather Prediction
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Significant Increase in Nitrous-Oxide Emissions from Human Activities, Jeopardizing Climate Goals
- Scientists Unlock Secrets of How Archaea, the Third Domain of Life, Makes Energy
- New Discovery Reveals Unexpected Ocean Algae Help Cool Earth
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Study Estimates That Between 1980 and 2020, 135 Million Premature Deaths Could Be Linked to Fine Particulate Matter Pollution
- The Solar System May Have Passed Through Dense Interstellar Clouds 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth's Climate
- In New Experiment, Scientists Record Earth's Radio Waves from the Moon
Friday, June 7, 2024
- Cascadia Subduction Zone, One of Earth's Top Hazards, Comes Into Sharper Focus
- Earth and Space Share the Same Turbulence
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
- Fighting Fires from Space in Record Time: How AI Could Prevent Devastating Wildfires
- 'Painting With Light' Illuminates Photo Evidence of Air Pollution
- A Cracking Discovery -- Eggshell Waste Can Recover Rare Earth Elements Needed for Green Energy
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- A Novel Approach to Tracking Conservation Reveals More Areas May Be Conserved Than Currently Accounted for
- Rate of Global Warming Caused by Humans at an All-Time High, Say Scientists
- Exploring Three Frontiers in Marine Biomass and Blue Carbon Capture
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Centering Relationships Between People and Place: A Critical Step Towards Improving Science's Contributions to Society
- Mapping the Seafloor Sediment Superhighway
- Shape and Depth of Ocean Floor Profoundly Influence How Carbon Is Stored There
- Arctic Melting Heavily Influenced by Little-Studied Meteorological Phenomena
- Thawing Permafrost: Not a Climate Tipping Element, but Nevertheless Far-Reaching Impacts
- Greenhouses Cover More and More of Earth's Surface
- Fresh Findings: Earliest Evidence of Life-Bringing Freshwater on Earth
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- New Coral Disease Forecasting System
- People Are Altering Decomposition Rates in Waterways
- Historic Iceberg Surges Offer Insights on Modern Climate Change
- High Groundwater Depletion Risk in South Korea in 2080s
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- What Makes Some Plant Groups So Successful?
- Aerosol Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Must Be Reduced Simultaneously to Keep Forest Fires in Check
- Some Species May Tolerate Climate Change Better Than Expected
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Iron Could Be Key to Less Expensive, Greener Lithium-Ion Batteries, Research Finds
- Intriguing Nearby World Sized Between Earth, Venus