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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Curtin scientists freeze out ice-age delivery theory for Stonehenge stones

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Dr Anthony Clarke at Stonehenge Photo Credit: Courtesy of Curtin University Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Disco...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Microplastics in the atmosphere: higher emissions from land areas than from the ocean

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Terrestrial sources...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Study Finds Ocean Impacts Nearly Double Economic Cost of Climate Change

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A mangrove in Laguna del Cacahuate, Tabasco, Mexico. Photo Credit: Octavio Aburto Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main...

How climate change contributed to the demise of the Tang dynasty

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Climatic and sociocultural changes may have contributed significantly to the demise of the Tang dynasty by weakening border defenses. Image ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

How hidden factors beneath Istanbul shape earthquake risk

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Istanbul Photo Credit:  Ozgu Ozden Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : New research reveals that undergro...

‘Cosmic clock’ reveals Australian landscapes’ history and potential future

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Scanning electron microscope image of zircon crystals. Each crystal is about 0.1 millimeters in size, which is roughly the thickness of a hu...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

What Is: Nuclear Winter

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A Planetary System Collapse Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended"At a Glance" Summary The Core Concep...

Cosmogenic krypton enables reconstruction of landscapes millions of years old

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Noble gas laboratory in Cologne where the krypton was analyzed for the study. Photo Credit: © Dr Tibor Dunai Scientific Frontline: "At ...

Hygienic conditions in Pompeii’s early baths were poor

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Pools of the oldest public bathing facilities in Pompeii, dating back to 130 BC Photo Credit:© Cees Passchier Scientific Frontline: "At...
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 At a Glance The Core Concept : The Anthropocene, or "Age of Man," is a proposed g...
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...