Geography News
April 30, 2025
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Apr. 29, 2025 — Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows. While the chemicals, called phthalates, are in ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Scientists believe they have found a way to improve warning systems for vulnerable communities threatened by humid heatwaves, which are on the rise due to climate change and can be damaging and even fatal to human health. The study analysed how ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions -- known as fire weather -- that facilitate the spread of wildfires. Researchers have found that fire weather seasons ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Some species that breed over large geographic areas can still be adapted to a fairly narrow range of climates, making them more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. Also, species with larger brains (relative to their body size) tend ...
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Apr. 25, 2025 — A new study has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Multiple climate 'tipping points' are likely to be triggered if global policies stay on their current course, new research ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — An international team of scientists and crew on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor (too) was the first to film the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural ...
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Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colombia's eastern ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Deep sea mining operations are expected to increase the negative impact on environmental indicators by up to 13 per cent, a change categorized as having 'great' significance, relative to ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — O'ahu's sandy beaches are at risk. New research has determined that 81% of O'ahu's coastline could experience erosion by 2100, with 40% of this loss happening by 2030. ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Study reveals commonly detected environmental levels of clobazam -- a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders -- increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild. ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research has ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A study has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high temperatures over the last two decades. The relative risk of mortality at the coldest temperatures has decreased by ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over a period of 8 million years, allowing for the occupation and ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — While the daily ebb and flow of people across a city might seem chaotic, new research reveals underlying universal patterns. A study unveils fundamental spatiotemporal scaling laws that govern these ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding -- via analysis of over 300 million hospitalizations records in eight countries prone to flooding events -- has found an increased ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — New research has highlighted more than 43% of Queensland, Australia's current productive aquaculture sites are expected to be impacted by sea level rise. Of the projected inundation caused by ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren't just scenic parts of our landscape -- they're also vital engines for life on Earth. These inland waters 'breathe' oxygen, just like ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
- Seismologists Share Early Analyses of Myanmar Earthquake
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Pioneering Research Reveals Arctic Matter Pathways Poised for Major Shifts Amidst Climate Change
- Deep-Sea Mining Risks Leads Study to Urge Shift to Circular Solutions
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Drug Pollution Alters Salmon Migration
- New Study on Natural Oil Seeps in the Deep Sea
- Caspian Sea Decline Threatens Endangered Seals, Coastal Communities and Industry
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Europe's Population Is Adapting Better to Cold Than to Heat
- Tree Rings Track Atmospheric Mercury Cheaply
- Sink or Swim: The Fate of Sinking Tectonic Plates Depends on Their Ancient Tectonic Histories
- Mapping Mercury Contamination in Penguins of the Southern Ocean
- With New Database Researchers May Be Able to Predict Rare Milky Seas Bioluminescent, Glowing Event
- Mediterranean Hunter Gatherers Navigated Long-Distance Sea Journeys Well Before the First Farmers
- 8 Million Years of 'Green Arabia'
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Universal Spatiotemporal Scaling Laws Governing Daily Population Flow in Cities Revealed
- Declining Insect Biodiversity in the Tropics
- Long-Term Health Impacts of Flooding Revealed
Monday, April 7, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Oxygen Is Running Low in Inland Waters, and Humans Are to Blame
- Soil Conditions Significantly Increase Rainfall in World's Megastorm Hotspots
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Climate Change and Prehistoric Human Populations: Eastward Shift of Settlement Areas at the End of the Last Ice Age
- How GPS Helps Older Drivers Stay on the Roads
- Riding the AI Wave Toward Rapid, Precise Ocean Simulations
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Southern Ocean Warming Will Mean a Wetter West Coast, US
- New Computer Model Reveals How Bronze Age Scandinavians Could Have Crossed the Sea
- Early Earth's First Crust Composition Discovery Rewrites Geological Timeline
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
- New Warnings of a 'Butterfly Effect' -- In Reverse
- 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
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Melting Ice, More Rain Drive Southern Ocean Cooling
- How Calcium May Have Unlocked the Origins of Life's Molecular Asymmetry
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Virtual Reality Videos Increase Environmental Awareness
- Researchers' Breakthrough Method Reveals Clouds Amplify Global Warming Far More Than Previously Understood
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Ocean Eddies -- The Food Trucks of the Sea
- Ecosystem Disrupted Following the Disappearance of Great White Sharks
- Refining Siberia's Land Cover Data: A Leap Forward for Climate Science
Monday, March 24, 2025
- 5,700-Year Storm Archive Shows Rise in Tropical Storms and Hurricanes in the Caribbean
- Introduced Pacific Oysters Provide Biodiversity Benefits in Port River
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Shrinking Andean Glaciers Threaten Water Supply of 90 Million People, Global Policy Makers Warn
- Aotearoa Once Home to Elephant Seals
- Study Identifies Viruses in Red Tide Blooms for the First Time
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- New Carbon-Negative Material Could Make Concrete and Cement More Sustainable
- Sulfur Bacteria Team Up to Break Down Substances in the Seabed
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
- Smoke from Wildland-Urban Interface Fires More Deadly Than Remote Wildfires
- Pacific Island Water Security Requires New Approach
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Earth's 'dirty Mirror' Effect Is Accelerating Climate Change
- Arctic Sea Ice Loss Drives Drier Weather Over California and Wetter Over Spain and Portugal
- Boreal Forest: Taking Taiga's Temperature
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Discovery: The Great Whale Pee Funnel Moves Vital Nutrients
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Study Warns of Deadly Future Marine Heat Waves in East Coast Estuaries
- AI Has 'great Potential' For Detecting Wildfires, New Study of the Amazon Rainforest Suggests
- Climate Change Threatens Future of Banana Export Industry
- Tracking Polar Bears During Their Most Secretive Stage of Life
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Flooding Expected Sooner in Hawai'i's Sinking Coastal Areas
- Caribou Migration Patterns Are Shrinking
- Footprints of Deep-Sea Mining
- Satellite Image Analysis Delivers New Insight Into the Functional Diversity of Tropical Forests
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Giant Clone of Seaweed in the Baltic Sea
- World's Critical Food Crops at Imminent Risk from Rising Temperatures
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Sea Otters Help Kelp Forests Recover -- But How Fast Depends on Where They Are
- Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current
Friday, February 28, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- When the Wild Things Are: Surprising Details of Mammalian Daily Activity
- School of Rock: Properties of Rocks in Fault Zones Contribute to Earthquake Generation
- Environmental Impact of Unexploded Ordnance in the Baltic Sea
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve
- Longest-Runout Undersea Sediment Flows Analyzed in Unprecedented Detail
- Africa Set to Reach 1.5 C Climate Change Threshold by 2040 Even Under Low Emission Scenarios
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Arctic Study Urges Stronger Climate Action to Prevent Catastrophic Warming
- How Young Salmon Navigate a Gauntlet of Danger En Route to the Sea
- Unexpected Discoveries in Study of Giraffe Gut Flora
- 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
- Underwater Mics and Machine Learning Aid Right Whale Conservation
- The Rising Tide of Sand Mining: A Growing Threat to Marine Life
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Nitrogen Fixation on Marine Particles Is Important in the Global Ocean
- We Can Farm More Seafood While Minimizing Its Impact on Biodiversity
- Global Retreat of Glaciers Has Strongly Accelerated
- 'Glacial Fracking': A Hidden Source of Arctic Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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
- Restoring Wildlife Habitats in Wealthy Nations Could Drive Extinctions in Species-Rich Regions, Experts Warn
- Foraging Seals Enable Scientists to Measure Fish Abundance Across the Vast Pacific Ocean