Reforestation in the eastern U.S. has been shown to mitigate regional warming trends, with research highlighting forests’ significant cooling effects on both land and air…
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An artist’s rendition of Titan’s landscape features a hazy atmosphere, dark dunes, and mirror-smooth lakes and seas that resemble Earth’s. On these bodies of liquid…
New findings suggest early humans arrived in North America earlier than 13,000 years ago, possibly using a “sea ice highway” along the Pacific Coast. This…
A new study reveals the significant environmental impact of bitcoin mining on a global scale. The research shows how the energy mix of different countries…
Research reveals that superbolts, extremely powerful lightning strikes, are more likely when storm clouds’ charging zones are near land or water surfaces. This finding sheds…
Updated land-elevation models reveal many coastal regions are lower than we thought, according to a new study in Earth’s Future. The first 1 to 2…
An artist’s illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, was designed to give…
Blue lakes currently account for less than a third of the world’s lakes. As global temperatures increase, blue lakes in North America and Europe are…
Researchers have discovered detectable changes in the local magnetic field that occur 2-3 days before an earthquake. Magnetometers detected faint signals that may improve our…
The center of Lagoon Nebula, captured by the Hubble Telescope. Nebulae are the primary sources of helium-3, and the amount of He-3 leaking from the…
South Georgia Island, the largest island along the subduction trench. Credit: European Space Agency (modified Copernicus Sentinel data) Researchers uncover why a complex earthquake in…
Magnetic field information could provide earlier disaster warning to at-risk regions, potentially saving lives. A new study finds the magnetic field generated by a tsunami…
Black carbon particles are spread throughout our atmosphere, produced by the burning of fuels or industrial processes. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization…
New modeling suggests fast collisions could explain why Earth is habitable while Venus is not. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Simone Marchi & Raluca Rufu New modeling…
Researchers’ ice core drilling camp on Colle Gnifetti in 2015. Two ice cores extracted from this area preserved a continuous one-thousand-year record of European climate…
Geoscientist Georgia Hole used tree rings to retrace the paths of driftwood, once frozen in sea ice, as it made its way through the Arctic.…
This image of Earth was compiled using tens of thousands of images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Thanks to the satellite era, we are better…
Smoke rises from Calwood Fire as it nears a neighborhood in Boulder County on October 17, 2020. Credit: Malachi Brooks Rising Temperatures and Risky Development…
First global assessment of the extent of snow and ice cover on Earth’s surface—a critical factor cooling the planet through reflected sunlight—and its response to…
Loss of water on land through ice melting and human-caused factors is changing the movement of the North and South poles. Glacial melting due to…