This visualization depicts bathymetric features of the western Atlantic Ocean Basin, including the continental shelf, captured by satellite. Credit: NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite and Information…
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Wildfires are a natural phenomenon that occur when dry vegetation, hot temperatures, and strong winds combine to ignite a fire. However, human activities such as…
An international panel of scientists has identified 100 important questions facing plant science in order to tackle global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity crises,…
Due to the harsh conditions in the Arctic, relatively few observations are made in that part of the world. Credit: Céline Heuzé According to researchers…
A microscope image of a shelled plankton. According to research from The University of Texas at Austin, plankton populations like this flourished in the tropics…
Ice is melting at an alarming pace all over the world. Whether it’s on mountain peaks, at the poles, in the seas, or on the…
The Camp Fire wildfire in 2018 burned a total of 239 square miles, destroyed 18,804 structures and killed 85 people. Researchers say it also produced…
The oceans absorb carbon dioxide and play a critical role in reducing global warming. However, according to a study by The University of Texas at…
The study explores the potential of underground salt deposits as multi-functional storage for hydrogen, heat transfer to geothermal plants, and CO2 storage. A common ingredient, salt,…
Mesopelagic fishes are an important element of marine food webs, a huge, still mostly untapped food resource, and great contributors to the biological carbon pump,…
Researchers have found an effective new method for removing carbon dioxide from the ocean. It could be implemented by ships that would process seawater as…
Aerial photographs of the Antarctic Peninsula’s glaciers. Credit: Dr. Anna E. Hogg, University of Leeds According to researchers, glaciers – massive blocks of moving ice…
Sandia National Laboratories bioengineer Susan Rempe, left, and chemical engineer Tuan Ho peer through an artistic representation of the chemical structure of a kind of…
Fire damage in the city of Detroit, Oregon, and the Oregon Cascades can be seen in this aerial image. Credit: Oregon State University Twenty-seven global…
A selection from the zooplankton collection at the NTNU University Museum. The collection is safely stored in anticipation of future researchers, who may find it…
Neanderthals were a species of archaic humans that lived in Europe and Asia from around 400,000 to 40,000 years ago. The remains of hunted animals…
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have measured how much carbon is produced by fertilizers from the beginning to the end of their life cycle.…
A schematic depiction of the burial and deep subduction of organic carbon. Credit: R. Dasgupta/Rice University Rising global temperatures are leading to a decrease in…
The Camp Fire wildfire in 2018 burned a total of 239 square miles, destroyed 18,804 structures, and killed 85 people. Researchers say it also produced…
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…