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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2025

Anomaly in the Deep Sea: Extraordinary Accumulation of Rare Atoms Could Improve Geological Dating Methods

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Schematic depiction of production and incorporation of cosmogenic 10Be into ferromanganese crusts. A pronounced anomaly in 10Be concentratio...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Cracks in Greenland Ice Sheet are growing, study finds

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Crevasses at Store Glacier, a marine-terminating outlet glacier of the western Greenland Ice Sheet.  Photo Credit: Tom Chudley (Durham Unive...

Scientists Discovered the Oldest Junipers in the Arctic

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Dendrochronologists determined the age of the trees by cross-dating. The photo shows a sample of juniper. Photo Credit: Rashit Khantemirov A...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Plant Power: A New Method to Model How Plants Move Water Globally

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Golden hour looking out on the UConn Forest. Photo Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo Earth systems models are an important tool for studying co...

Temperature, rainfall and tides speed glacier flow on a daily basis

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The calving front of the Bowdoin Glacier/Kangerluarsuup Sermia. Photo Credit: Shin Sugiyama Even though ‘glacial’ is commonly used to descri...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Ancient Antarctic ice loss offers insights into future climate scenarios

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Photo Credit: University of Cambridge / British Antarctic Survey. Scientists from the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey h...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

New data on atmosphere from Earth to the edge of space

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Clouds in Antarctica. Our weather is influenced by many factors, at ground level (such as mountains and human activity), interactions in our...
Monday, January 6, 2025

Increased wildfire activity may be a feature of past periods of abrupt climate change, study finds

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A new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice suggests that global increases in wildfire activity likely occurred durin...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Atmospheric Scientists Link Arctic Sea Loss Ice to Strong El Niño Events

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El Niño, a climate pattern where warm waters in the eastern Pacific fuel hotter weather, is finally beginning to wane after bringing a long ...
Friday, March 29, 2024

‘Back to the Future’ to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef

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Alex Modys, Ph.D., diving at the coral death assemblage in Pompano Ridge and digging up a subfossil coral, Orbicella annularis. Photo Credit...

Largest ice shelf in Antarctica lurches forward once or twice each day

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A side view of the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest ice shelf in Antarctica. Washington University in St. Louis seismologist Doug Wiens discovere...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Key Ocean Current Contains a Warning on Climate

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Scientists extracted a 5.3 million-year record of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by drilling sediment cores in the Earth’s most remote wa...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Natural recycling at the origin of life

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Volcanic freshwater lakes, similar to those found in Iceland today, offered a favorable niche on an early earth. The low-salt, alkaline cond...

Oxford researchers uncover remarkable archive of ancient human brains

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Fragments of brain from an individual buried in a Victorian workhouse cemetery (Bristol, UK), some 200 years ago. No other soft tissue survi...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Unprecedented heatwaves revealed by marine lab’s historic data

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Auckland A unique record at the University of Auckland's Leigh marine lab shows dramatic change ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Researchers provide unprecedented view into aerosol formation in Earth’s lower atmosphere

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Researchers identified evidence of Criegee intermediate oligomerization in the Amazon rainforest.  Image Credit: Argonne National Laboratory...

Can ‘Super Volcanoes’ Cool the Earth in a Major Way? A New Study Suggests No.

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Quizapu Volcano, Chile Photo Credit: Kevin Krajick / Earth Institute Some 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcano in Indonesia exploded with a fo...

How Does a River Breathe?

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Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been studying processes that affect how rivers and streams breathe, particularly in...
Monday, March 4, 2024

Producing Hydrogen from Rocks Gains Steam as Scientists Advance New Methods

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Researchers are studying chemical catalysts that can produce hydrogen gas from iron-rich rocks. Photo Credit: Toti Larson / UT Austin. In a ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

80 mph speed record for glacier fracture helps reveal the physics of ice sheet collapse

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In this illustration, seawater flows deep below the surface into an actively opening ice shelf rift in Antarctica. New research shows that s...