This image shows the rainforest and Ndoki River near Mbeli and Mokeli. Researchers reporting in the journal One Earth on July 23 have developed a…
Posts published in “Earth”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study finds. Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two…
A forest fire during the 2015 El Niño. Credit: Erika Berenguer A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees…
A view of the Apollo Vent Field at the northern Gorda Ridge, where samples were collected by the ROV Hercules for studying microbial predators. Credit:…
Actions in coming decade will determine whether reefs survive, scientists say. An international group of researchers representing thousands of coral scientists across the globe is…
“Wild pigs are just like tractors plowing through fields, turning over soil to find food,” Dr. O’Bryan said. Credit: The University of Queensland By uprooting…
Water collects on mosses. The first land plants were thought to be non-vascular, like mosses. Credit: Katmai Preserve NPS Photo/Russ Taylor The arrival of plants…
The experimental setup and test site at Store Glacier, Greenland. Researchers conceptualized a battery-powered receiver with an antenna placed on the ice that can measure…
While one science instrument mapped the dome of high pressure that settled over the southwestern U.S. in early July, another captured ground surface temperatures. Just…
Ocean waves are one way microplastics enter the atmosphere. Ocean water, is full of insoluble plastic particles that bob to the top layer of water…
Shanghai, China New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just…
Molten metal. Asegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun. “This is the key, the linchpin that will set…
July 8, 2021 The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made a series of landfalls and dropped abundant rain from the Caribbean to the U.S.…
This photo of sea ice on the Wandel Sea north of Greenland was taken August 16, 2020, from the German icebreaker Polarstern, which passed through…
Catching a big blue barrel floating on the ocean surface in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from the German research vessel SONNE during expedition SO268/3…
The AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite collected temperature readings in the atmosphere and at the surface during an unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific…
Meteor Crater, Arizona. This crater is the result of an impact of a 50m meteor, whereas the impacts described in the current work may have…
An electromagnetic sensor on its way to the ocean floor off New Zealand to collect data. Credit: Samer Naif / Lamont-Doherty Electromagnetic Geophysics Lab Seamounts…
Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm changes in the Southern Great Plains. Large thunderstorms in the…
One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic…