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Cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere may be important for cloud formation. Credit: DTU Space Large Effect of Solar Activity on Earth’s Energy Budget This…
Eroding cliff bluffs adjacent to Elson Lagoon near Utqiagvik, Alaska. Credit: Michael Rawlins New research from UMass Amherst shines light on poorly understood processes of…
Although sun radiation was relatively low, the temperature on the young Earth was warm. An international team of geoscientists has found important clues that high…
Earth’s vast habitats from the poles to the equator have robust capacity to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere due to previously undiscovered rock nitrogen weathering reactions…
Capturing and burying carbon is one of the most promising ways to blunt the pace of climate change University of Texas and ExxonMobil researchers found…
Experiments in a chamber under Martian-like conditions in a University of Oregon lab suggest that small sparks may be triggered by friction under normal atmospheric…
Zeolite, a crystalline material that consists primarily of aluminum, silicon and oxygen, could act essentially as a sponge to soak up methane. Analyses lay out…
Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car’s exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic…
Researchers insert a vacuum line down a borehole in Megadunes, Antarctica, to pump air out of the snow pack. Researchers at UCI analyzed the “firn”…
Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new insight into what caused one of the most rapid and dramatic instances of climate change in the history of…
Processes in Earth’s upper atmosphere create bright swaths of color known as airglow, as seen here in an image taken from the International Space Station.…
This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn’s moon Titan from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA Titan, SaturnSaturn is the sixth planet from the…
Surface ocean temperatures simulated at unprecedented resolution using a coupled atmosphere-ocean model. The extensive wavy cold structure in the equatorial Pacific corresponds to a tropical…
The global distribution of the combined toxic-climate risk. The global distribution of the combined risk of toxic pollution (low or high ecosystem health) and climate…
The SAIL site in Gothic, Colorado. Credit: Ken Williams/Berkeley Lab First-ever “bedrock-to-atmosphere” observation system could allow scientists to predict the future of water availability in…
Princeton UniversityFounded in 1746, Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey and the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in…
Scanning electron microscopy image of SiC petrified corn husks. Credit: UC San Diego Salk scientists quantify process to permanently store plant-captured CO2 as SiC, a…
An international review study details for the first time how biochar improves the root zone of a plant. A product made from urban, agriculture, and…
The first land plants were thought to be non-vascular, like mosses. Geoscientific study traces carbon-silicon cycle over three billion years on the basis of lithium…