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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Sediments of the Ahr river show recurring high-magnitude flood events

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The extreme summer flood of 2021 in the Ahr Valley caused catastrophic damage.    Photo Credit: Physical Geography working group, Leipzig Un...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Ancient Antarctica reveals a ’one–two punch’ behind ice sheet collapse

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An image of Antarctica as seen from space. Image Credit: NASA. When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushin...

New research may help scientists predict when a humid heat wave will break

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Caption:MIT scientists have identified a key atmospheric condition that determines how hot and humid midlatitude regions like the Midwest ca...
Friday, January 2, 2026

Scientists discover what drives California's worst fire years

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Two natural resource specialists walk through an area of Redwood Mountain Grove burned in the KNP Complex Fire in California’s Sierra Nevada...

What Is: The Anthropocene

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image The Definition of a New Reality The term "Anthropocene" has transcended its origi...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Water’s Age and What It Can Tell Us

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PhD student Joshua Snarski is using stable water isotopes to study how water is stored and released from soil in agricultural settings. Phot...
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...