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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Monday, October 2, 2023

Scientists Investigate Grand Canyon's Ancient Past to Predict Future Climate Impacts

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The Grand Canyon is known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Matthew Lachniet The Grand Canyon’s va...

Climate and human land use both play roles in Pacific island wildfires past and present

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SMU fire scientist Christopher Roos Photo Credit: Courtesy of  Southern Methodist University It’s long been understood that human settlement...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Ancient plant wax reveals how global warming affects methane in Arctic lakes

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A 2014 field photo from Wax Lips Lake on northwest Greenland with the Greenland Ice Sheet in the background and three of the study authors (...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Tree rings reveal a new kind of earthquake threat to the Pacific Northwest

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Price Lake, in the eastern Olympic Mountains, formed when the Saddle Mountain fault impounded a stream and flooded the forest. Lead author B...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

From Seafloor to Space: New Bacterial Proteins Shine Light on Climate and Astrobiology

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Methane clathrate (white, ice-like material) under a rock from the seafloor of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Deposits such as these demonstra...

New insect genus discovered in one of the most biodiverse rain forest regions in the world

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Capitojoppa amazonica is a large parasitoid wasp species that has only been discovered in the Allpahuyao-Mishana National Reserve in the Per...

Study shows birds that have evolved greater complexity are less biodiverse

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Songbirds have less complex skeletons and are species rich Photo Credit:  cocoparisienne A new study of the evolution of birds shows that as...

Bladderwrack at risk of destruction as ocean acidity rises

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Bladderwrack is one of the most common macroalgae growing along Sweden’s coasts. It is widespread up to the Bothnian Sea. In Europe, it grow...

Extreme heat likely to cause next mass extinction

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Photo Credit:  Juli Kosolapova A new study shows unprecedented heat is likely to lead to the next mass extinction since the dinosaurs died o...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Potentially hazardous La Niña weather more common, lasting longer

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Wildfire in California. Photo Credit:  Ross Stone The climate event La Niña that can cause devastating weather, impacting communities and in...

Heat extremes in the soil are underestimated

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Climate change intensifies extreme heat in the soil. Photo Credit: André Künzelmann (UFZ) For a long time, little attention was paid to soil...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

UD study evaluates how climate shocks impact the planted and harvested areas for crops

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Dongyang Wei (left), a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, and Kyle Davis, assistant professor in the De...

Tropical butterflies’ wings could help them withstand climate change

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Cambridge Tropical butterflies with bigger, longer and narrower wings are better able to stay cool w...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Photosynthesis, Key to Life on Earth, Starts with a Single Photon

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A cutting-edge experiment has revealed the quantum dynamics of one of nature’s most crucial processes Illustration Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkel...

Plate tectonics not required for the emergence of life

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Plate tectonics involves the horizontal movement and interaction of large plates on Earth’s surface. New research indicates that mobile plat...

New Clues About Origin of Complex Life Trace Roots to Common Ancestor

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According to this latest study, all complex life forms (a.k.a. eukaryotes) trace their roots back to a common ancestor among a group of micr...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Pass the salt: This space rock holds clues as to how Earth got its water

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Asteroid Itokawa as seen by the Hayabusa spacecraft. The peanut-shaped S-type asteroid measures approximately 1,100 feet in diameter and com...

Vaccine against deadly chytrid fungus primes frog microbiome for future exposure

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A new study led by researchers at Penn State found that a new vaccine against the deadly chytrid fungus in frogs can shift the composition o...

Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence

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Simulations performed on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer generated one of the most detailed portraits to date of how tu...
Monday, June 12, 2023

CRISPR/Cas9-Based Gene Drive Could Suppress Agricultural Pests

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NC State researchers used a florescent protein to mark the genetic changes to spotted-wing Drosophila. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the researc...