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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Scientists Crack Ancient Salt Crystals to Unlock Secrets of 1.4 Billion-Year-Old Air

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Microscopic image of fluid inclusions in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals, which preserve ancient air and brine. Image Credit: Justin Pa...

Ultra-high-resolution Lidar Reveals Hidden Cloud Structures

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This experimental setup at Michigan Technological University allows researchers to create and study clouds under carefully controlled condit...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

What Is: The Phanerozoic Eon

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Defining the Eon of Complex Life Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated The Phanerozoic Eon constitutes the current and most biol...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Storms in the Southern Ocean mitigates global warming

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Visible satellite image showing storms sweeping across the Southern Ocean on 4 January 2019. Photo Credit: NASA Worldview Snapshot Intense s...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Farmers boosted Europe's biodiversity over the last 12,000 years

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Standing stones in Carnac, France. Built between 6,500 - 5,300 years ago by Europe's first farmers.  Photo Credit: Jonny Gordon. Althoug...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Island-wide field surveys illuminate land-sea connections in Mo‘orea

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Mo'orea, French Polynesia, is surrounded by a diverse and vibrant coral reef ecosystem. Photo Credit: Christian John A massive, multi-ye...

A new study reveals how oxygen first reached Earth’s oceans

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WHOI Geochemist Andy Heard uses precise measurements of isotope ratios in sedimentary rocks to learn about the history of oxygen in Earth’s ...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

What Is: An Ecosystem

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The Holocoenotic Nature of the Biosphere Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image The Genesis of a Paradigm   The concept of the eco...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Over half of global coastal settlements are retreating inland due to intensifying climate risks

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Hurricane Florence moved toward the U.S. East Coast as it intensified to a Category 4 storm, with one-minute sustained winds of 130 mph Mond...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The seamounts of Cape Verde: a biodiversity hotspot and a priority for marine conservation in the central-eastern Atlantic

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Image Credit: Projecte Luso/iMirabilis2/iAtlantic An international team led by Covadonga Orejas, a researcher at the Gijón Oceanographic Cen...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Antarctic mountains could boost ocean carbon absorption

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Glaciers transport sediments from Antarctica to the coast. Photo Credit: Dr Kate Winter, Northumbria University Research involving scientist...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Rocks on Faults Can Heal Following Seismic Movement

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At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Researchers link Antarctic ice loss to ‘storms' at the ocean's subsurface

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Mattia Poinelli, a UC Irvine postdoctoral scholar in Earth system science and NASA JPL research affiliate, outlines in a newly published stu...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Destination: Mars. First Stop: Iceland?

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This picturesque vista is the watershed in southwest Iceland, where researchers collected mars rock analog samples. Image Credit: Michael Th...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Earth Science: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image Earth Science is the comprehensive study of the planet Earth, encompassing its physical com...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

UC Irvine team track massive ice loss from Berry Glacier in West Antarctica

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UC Irvine researchers analyzed decades worth of satellite data to better understand the causes of the rapid retreat of Berry Glacier, a trib...
Monday, November 3, 2025

New study reveals fastest Antarctic glacier retreat in modern history

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Hektoria and Green, once glaciated, are now reduced to drifting ice rubble. Photo Credit: Naomi Ochwat, lead author of the study and Post-Do...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth

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Raising the Foro Drill, Allan Hills, Antarctica. 2022-2023. Photo Credit: Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX. A team of U.S. scientists has discov...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Beavers Impact Ecosystems Above and Below Ground

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Photo Credit:  Gennady Zakharin Above ground, we can see changes wrought by beaver ponds such as increases in biodiversity and water retenti...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Retreating Glaciers May Send Fewer Nutrients to the Ocean

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Northwestern Glacier in Alaska has retreated approximately 15 kilometers (nine miles) since 1950. Photo Credit: Kiefer Forsch/Scripps Instit...