Geography News
February 7, 2026
Top Headlines
Feb. 6, 2026 A new study reveals that chemicals used to replace ozone-damaging CFCs are now driving a surge in a persistent “forever chemical” worldwide. The pollutant, called trifluoroacetic acid, is falling out of the atmosphere into water, land, and ice, ...
Feb. 4, 2026 Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life could not easily use. This means more melting ice ...
Feb. 2, 2026 As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining may soon begin. Over five years and 160 days at sea, researchers documented nearly 800 species, many previously unknown. ...
Jan. 29, 2026 Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though the planet was warmer than today. Oxygen levels only plunged millions of years later, after the climate cooled, defying ...
Jan. 29, 2026 Small mammals are early warning systems for environmental damage, but many species look almost identical, making them hard to track. Scientists have developed a new footprint-based method that can tell apart nearly indistinguishable species with ...
Jan. 25, 2026 After analyzing 40 years of tree records across the Andes and Amazon, researchers found that climate change is reshaping tropical forests in uneven ways. Some regions are steadily losing tree species, especially where conditions are hotter and ...
Jan. 21, 2026 Mountain regions around the world are heating up faster than the lands below them, triggering dramatic shifts in snow, rain, and water supply that could affect over a billion people. A major global review finds that rising temperatures are turning ...
Jan. 19, 2026 Plastic-coated fertilizers used on farms are emerging as a major but hidden source of ocean microplastics. A new study found that only a tiny fraction reaches beaches through rivers, while direct drainage from fields to the sea sends far more ...
Jan. 17, 2026 Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses. New research suggests microplastics are disrupting marine life that helps oceans absorb carbon dioxide, while also releasing ...
Jan. 15, 2026 In the rapidly disappearing Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes are adapting to a human-dominated landscape. Scientists found that many species now prefer feeding on people rather than the forest’s diverse wildlife. This behavior dramatically raises the ...
Jan. 14, 2026 For thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming temperatures dried soils and fueled the spread of shrubs, setting the stage for intense fires. Peat cores and satellite ...
Jan. 14, 2026 Scientists have identified a newly recognized threat lurking beneath the ocean’s surface: sudden episodes of underwater darkness that can last days or even months. Caused by storms, sediment runoff, algae blooms, and murky water, these “marine ...
Latest Headlines
updated 12:17pm EST
Feb. 6, 2026 Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet and influences weather patterns around the world, but it is disappearing faster than ever as the climate warms. Scientists have now developed a new forecasting ...
Feb. 5, 2026 Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of years. Using ancient magnetic records and advanced simulations, scientists ...
Feb. 1, 2026 Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...
Jan. 23, 2026 Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. More than 800 million years ago, tectonic rifting ...
Jan. 17, 2026 Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of tiny earthquakes that are far too weak to feel. These faint tremors are ...
Jan. 14, 2026 Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the atmosphere. This steady buildup has accelerated since the 1990s and is now ...
Jan. 13, 2026 Scientists tracking Earth’s water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across continents. When these climate cycles intensify, far-apart regions ...
Jan. 12, 2026 Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that when iron is scarce, phytoplankton waste energy and photosynthesis ...
Jan. 10, 2026 Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of ...
Jan. 6, 2026 When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it ...
Earlier Headlines
Jan. 4, 2026 Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations recover could boost sustainable fish yields by nearly 50%, creating millions ...
Dec. 29, 2025 The Arctic is changing rapidly, and scientists have uncovered a powerful mix of natural and human-driven processes fueling that change. Cracks in sea ice release heat and pollutants that form clouds ...
Dec. 25, 2025 Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous. These regions, especially near the Philippines and the Caribbean, are ...
Dec. 19, 2025 New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide their ...
Dec. 26, 2025 When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers discovered that bridgmanite deep in the mantle can store far more water at high ...
Dec. 31, 2025 Microplastics in rivers, lakes, and oceans aren’t just drifting debris—they’re constantly leaking invisible clouds of chemicals into the water. New research shows that sunlight drives this ...
Dec. 12, 2025 A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ...
Dec. 16, 2025 A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface. The discovery could mean stronger shaking near faults like California’s ...
Dec. 12, 2025 Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...
Dec. 27, 2025 Scientists have built the most detailed 3D models yet of temperatures deep beneath Greenland. The results reveal uneven heat hidden below the ice, shaped by Greenland’s ancient path over a volcanic ...
Dec. 8, 2025 A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states ...
Dec. 30, 2025 Scientists have uncovered an extensive underwater vent system near Milos, Greece, hidden along active fault lines beneath the seafloor. These geological fractures act as pathways for hot, gas-rich ...
Dec. 10, 2025 Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...
Dec. 2, 2025 As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...
Dec. 11, 2025 Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of years. These porous breccia deposits store far more carbon than ...
Dec. 4, 2025 This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica ranked among the smallest since the early 1990s, reflecting steady progress from decades of global action under the Montreal Protocol. Declining chlorine ...
Nov. 26, 2025 Rerouted shipping during Red Sea conflicts accidentally created a massive real-world experiment, letting scientists study how new low-sulfur marine fuels affect cloud formation. The sudden surge of ...
Nov. 23, 2025 A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses under intense space weather. With the Arase satellite in a perfect observing ...
Nov. 20, 2025 Researchers have launched the first coordinated plan to protect microbial biodiversity, calling attention to the “invisible 99% of life” that drives essential Earth systems. The IUCN has formally ...
Nov. 22, 2025 Scientists discovered that deep earthquake faults can heal far faster than expected, sometimes within hours. Slow slip events in Cascadia reveal repeated fault movements that only make sense if the ...
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Monday, December 29, 2025
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Friday, December 19, 2025
Friday, December 26, 2025
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
- Rapid Fault Healing Could Rewrite Earthquake Physics
- The Five Great Forests That Keep North America’s Birds Alive
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Friday, November 14, 2025
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Friday, November 14, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Monday, November 3, 2025
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025
Monday, November 3, 2025
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Friday, October 10, 2025
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Thursday, October 2, 2025
- Scientists Just Found the Shocking Reason Chile’s Quake Shook So Hard
- Japan’s Hot Springs Hold Clues to the Origins of Life on Earth
Friday, September 26, 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Monday, September 22, 2025
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Friday, September 19, 2025
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Friday, September 12, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
- Hungry Flathead Catfish Are Changing Everything in the Susquehanna
- The Ocean’s Most Abundant Microbe Is Near Its Breaking Point
- Antarctica’s Frozen Heart Is Warming Fast, and Models Missed It
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
- The Flawed Carbon Math That Lets Major Polluters Off the Hook
- Central Asia’s Last Stable Glaciers Just Started to Collapse
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Monday, September 1, 2025
- Scientists Fear the Atlantic’s Great Ocean Conveyor Could Shut Down
- A Monster Seaweed Bloom Is Taking Over the Atlantic
Monday, December 15, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Monday, September 15, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Sunday, August 31, 2025
- Scientists Uncover Wildfire Paradox That’s Putting 440 Million People in Danger
- Geologists Got It Wrong: Rivers Didn’t Need Plants to Meander