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An illustration showing Lystrosaurus during the end-Permian mass extinction. Credit: Gina Viglietti Our planet’s worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive…
Today, Antarctic winds usually blow from the continent out to the sea. Credit: Svein Østerhu The Antarctic ice sheet was even more unstable in the…
Sampling with the ROV in the home of the investigated microbes, the Guaymas-Beckens. Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Why methane carbon isotopes in the deep…
Frost on Arabidopsis thaliana — new discovery may help us grow crops in fluctuating climate. Credit: John Innes Centre The first frost of autumn may…
A male orangutan eating non-fruit vegetation instead of the fruit orangutans prefer on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Credit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan Orangutan…
Stony corals pictured in their natural habitat in the Gulf of Eilat, at the northern tip of the Red Sea. Credit: Hagai Native/University of Haifa…
If Paris Agreement targets are not met, the collapse of melting Antarctic ice shelves — like the Wilkins Ice Shelf in 2009 — could cause…
Mountain Ringlet butterfly. Credit: Melissa Minter, University of York UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some…
The aquarium system in which scientists submitted Northern red sea corals to various temperatures. Credit: Maoz Fine EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals…
One of the first photographs of a sediment trap sample shows pellets, aggregates, and shells that make up sinking “marine snow.” Credit: © Woods Hole…
SODA researchers gather on deck of R/V Sikuliaq. Credit: Jim Thomson A team led by physical oceanographers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University…
Glacial lake in the Himalayan region. Credit: © Heng Li A team of Swiss and international climate scientists has shown that the risk of glacial…
UC undergraduate research assistant Jacob Hoschouer takes samples from an inactive oil well. Credit: UC Geology Geologist studies greenhouse gas emissions from uncapped, idle wells…
This was taken in the Scotia Sea during the coring campaign in 2007. Credit: Michael Weber New calculations show the rise due to warming would…
Researchers from the US and Canada found evidence in mineral deposits from caves in Canada that permafrost thawing took place as recently as 400,000 years…
Rapid glacier melt: A roaring meltwater stream connects the Morteratsch and Pers Glaciers (r.), Engadine, Switzerland. A few years ago, the glaciers were connected. Credit:…
Researchers from the US and Canada found evidence in mineral deposits from caves in Canada that permafrost thawing took place as recently as 400,000 years…
Destruction of the Larsen B platform in Antarctica, images from January 31 to April 13, 2002. Credit: NASA Fractures from melting and run-off will indirectly…
Farm of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines. Credit: Oxford Brookes University The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with…