Deep-Sea Discovery Reveals How Life Might Begin Without Biology
Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...
Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...
Large squid’s tentacles flew like harpoons at fish, video shows. Then, things got odd
A rare observance of a deep sea squid using one of its tentacles like a giant tongue got stranger still when it spewed out ...
Advances in plate tectonics research provide a new view of deep Earth's carbon emissions
From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...
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What is plate tectonics?
In the ocean, this same process creates mid-ocean ridges. Hot magma from Earth’s mantle wells up at these ridges, forming new ocean crust and shoving the plates apart. Underwater mountains and ...
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Yet another November hurricane threat is taking shape
A named storm will likely form in the Northwest Caribbean later this week, and it could strengthen and head toward Florida or ...
Brace for winter. It may not be as tame as some expect in the D.C. area.
D.C.’s winters are steadily warming and average snowfall amounts are declining over time because of climate change. Considering this, it would be going out on a limb to forecast a cold and snowy ...
Fire weather to return in Northeast, despite more rain for some
Despite the approach of two storms with rain, drought and high brush fire conditions are likely to persist for weeks for millions in the Northeast, AccuWeather meterorologists say. The brush fire risk ...
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Volunteer forest ranger, 18, dies responding to New York wildfire that sent smoky haze over NYC
The fire was one of several blazes in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast this weekend amid an ongoing ... “From where I was last ...
White smokers on the lake floor: Spectacular chimneys discovered in the Dead Sea
In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers ...
Tropical Storm Sara forms but will it be strong enough to make it into the Gulf of Mexico?
The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane was likely to flood parts of Central America and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula ...
Volunteer forest ranger, 18, dies responding to New York wildfire
Dariel Vasquez, a Parks and Recreation aide employed by the New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Department, was killed while battling a fire in a forest in Greenwood Lake, ...