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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
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...

Microbes at Red Sea vents show how life and geology shape each other

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Microscopic images of the studied microbes. Image Credit: Courtesy of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology A new study led by ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Arctic in Transition: Greenland’s Caves Preserve Ancient Climate Archive

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Inside the Cove Cave, northern Greenland: A team of Innsbruck scientists studies deposits from a time when the Arctic was much warmer than t...
Friday, October 17, 2025

What Is: Extinction Level Events

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A Chronicle of Earth's Biotic Crises and an Assessment of Future Threats Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Defining Biotic Catastrophe ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

New study finds large fluctuations in sea level occurred throughout the last ice age, a significant shift in understanding of past climate

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Photo Credit:  Michael Chen Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto-Earth”

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“This is maybe the first direct evidence that we’ve preserved the proto Earth materials,” says Nicole Nie. An artist’s illustration shows a ...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Earth’s continents stabilized due to furnace-like heat

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A new study of the chemical components of rocks led by researchers at Penn State and Columbia University provides the clearest evidence yet ...

Scientists uncover a new way to forecast eruptions at mid-ocean ridges through hydrothermal vent temperatures

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Data loggers deployed at hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise record temperature of vent fluids every ten minutes for up to a year. P...

Understanding volcanoes better

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Oldoinyo Lengai in Tanzania is the only active carbonatite volcano on Earth. Photo Credit: © Miriam Reiss How do volcanoes work? What happen...

The Red Sea Went Completely Dry Before Being Flooded by the Indian Ocean

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 KAUST scientists have determined a rapid flood more than 6 million years ago radically changed the Red Sea and all its marine life. Photo C...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

What Is: El Niño, La Niña, and a Climate in Flux

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / NOAA The Planet's Most Powerful Climate Cycle In 1997, a climatic event of unprecedented scale bega...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Heatwaves at Sea May Force the Ocean to Release More CO2

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Marine heatwaves are disrupting the ocean’s ability to store carbon Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated Heatwaves not only occ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the ocean over 100 km away

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Nishinoshima Island, located in the Ogasawara Islands of Japan, is home to an active volcano. Ash from volcanic eruptions there in 2020 coul...

Cascadia and San Andreas faults may be seismically linked

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Chris Goldfinger Photo Credit: Courtesy of Oregon State University Two fault systems on North America’s West Coast – the Cascadia subduction...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Rare glimpse at understudied ecosystem prompts caution on deep-sea mining

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Some of the animals identified in the deep-sea that spend their life in the benthic boundary layer. Photo Credit: Gabrielle Ellis An enormou...
Monday, September 29, 2025

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests

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Some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge, according to MIT geochemists who unearthed new evidence i...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Supercritical subsurface fluids open a window into the world

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Interpreted 3D seismic characteristics. The seal layer, interpreted by looking at data on the supercritical fluid’s movement, appears as a d...