The research vessel JOIDES Resolution in Fremantle (Australia) the morning before the ship sailed on Expedition 356. The results are based on samples taken from…
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Earth’s thin shell of oxygen atmosphere keeps us alive, though we still don’t know exactly how it formed. A new study from the University of…
A new international study led by Monash University climate scientists has revealed that ice loss in Antarctica persisted for many centuries after it was initiated…
A rookery of black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) nest at a windy, exposed tussac grassland on West Point Island, Falkland Islands. Credit: Dulcinea Groff Seabird poop…
New research from a team led by scientists at Purdue University has found that trees and plants play an important role in the formation of…
Infographic describing the study’s findings. Credit: Bob Wilder / University at Buffalo The research places the ice sheet’s modern decline in historical context, providing a…
China’s success in improving air quality by cutting polluting emissions may have a negative knock-on effect on climate change overall, a new study has found.…
First-ever measurements provide evidence that extremely cold liquid water exists in two distinct structures that co-exist and vary in proportion dependent on temperature. Supercooled water…
Archaeologic excavations at Hall’s Cave exposed sediments for geochemical analysis that span from circa 20,000 to 6,000 years. Credit: Michael Waters, Texas A&M University Researchers…
Earth’s oceans help to slow global warming by absorbing carbon from our atmosphere – but fully observing this crucial process in the upper ocean and…
This visualization shows a three-day average of carbon monoxide concentrations, from Sept. 6 to 14, in the atmosphere over California due to wildfires. Higher concentrations…
A living foraminifera, a type of marine plankton, that researchers grew in laboratory culture. To reconstruct past climate, fossilized specimens are collected from deep sea…
WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right), one of the authors of the study, deploys a sediment trap used to study the biological carbon pump during…
This false-color photograph shows a “forest” of many candy pinnacles that have been dissolved in water. The candy was initially a solid block containing pores,…
Our Energy Hunger Is Tethered to Our Economic Past Just as a living organism continually needs food to maintain itself, an economy consumes energy to…
Ocean Carbon Uptake Widely Underestimated The world’s oceans soak up much more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research. Previous estimates of…
Calculated trends in geophysical PM2.5 values from 1998-2018. Warm colors indicate positive trends, cool colors indicate negative trends and the opacity of the colors indicates…
Caption: Left to right: Florentino Tunquipa who discovered and excavated the fossil tree on his land, Rodolfo Salas Gismondi, Carlos Jaramillo, Julia Tejada, Federico Moreno,…
The KunLun Differential Image Motion Monitors atop the 8-meter high tower at Dome A, Antarctica. Credit: Zhaohui Shang Dome A, the highest ice dome on…
Concordia research station in Antarctica at 3233 m asl. Credit: © Thibaut Vergoz, Institut polaire français. A new measurement technology developed at the University of…