An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...
The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, on the Bering Peninsula in Alaska, is currently above sea level. Credit: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Today the Bering Strait is a ...
As climate change warms the Arctic, permafrost is thawing, and carbon trapped within the soil is moving into the atmosphere. Permafrost stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, but the degree to ...
The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...
Around the world, phytoplankton in the upper ocean help to cycle key nutrients and regulate Earth’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide. These photosynthesizing organisms rely on dissolved iron as an ...
An artist’s concept depicts what the Earth-analogue planet might look like, with the white dwarf star in the background. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Earth’s future is bleak. At best, ...
A photograph taken near the town of Popoyo, Nicaragua, during a post-tsunami survey following a Mw = 7.7 earthquake that struck Nicaragua’s Pacific coast on 1 September 1992 local time. Here ...
A new community science project brings together the Cowichan Tribes, the provincial government of British Columbia, and scientists to study the Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo' (Koksilah River). Credit: David ...
The Atlantic has seen significant decreases in cloud cover recently. Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center In a string of ever-hotter years, 2023 stood out: It was ...
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Switzerland, a dramatic rock slope failure is developing above ...
The upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will likely have above-normal activity, according to the annual outlook produced by NOAA. NOAA issues an Atlantic hurricane season outlook each May, using ...
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, seen here in an artist’s concept, has been orbiting Mars since 2014. Credit: NASA/GSFC Mars’s current atmosphere is downright tenuous—conferring less than 1% the pressure of ...
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