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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
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...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Rivers in the Sky, Arctic Warming, and What this Means for the Greenland Ice Sheet

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Photo Credit: Beau Mori  “Atmospheric rivers” are large-scale extreme weather systems that are making headlines more frequently. When viewed...

Ice dissolves iron faster than liquid water

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When ice freezes and thaws repeatedly, chemical reactions are fuelled that can have significant impact on ecosystems. The photo was taken in...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Fossilized feces help bring prehistoric worlds to life — in molecular detail

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Curtin University An international research team led by Curtin University has used prehistoric feces to better und...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Cosmic glass found only in Australia reveals ancient asteroid impact

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The newly discovered tektites or ‘cosmic glass’. Photo Credit: Et al. ‘Earth and Planetary Science Letters’ Curtin researchers have helped u...
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...