Left: (a) Collection location of the sclerosponge specimen LSI?4 (Lee Stocking Island, The Bahamas). (b) Slab of the sclerosponge analyzed with the shaded region indicating…
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New study unravels long-standing climate mystery and provides insight into how our planet may change in the future. Scientists claim to have found the “missing…
Image of archaea. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used know-how from gravitational-wave astronomy (used to…
When Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in a two-story house in Atlanta, the city had 715,000 residents. (His father changed his…
New technology from Stanford scientists finds long-hidden quakes, and possible clues about how earthquakes evolve. Tiny movements in Earth’s outermost layer may provide a Rosetta…
Massive deployment of Direct Air Capture could reverse the rise in global temperature well before 2100, but only with immediate and sustained investments from governments…
This image, also featured on the Earth from Space video program, was captured on January 12, 2020 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission – a two-satellite…
2020 Earth’s average temperature has risen more than 1.2°C (2°F) since the late 19th century. Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016…
Oxygen levels in the ancient oceans were surprisingly resilient to climate change, new research suggests. Scientists used geological samples to estimate ocean oxygen during a…
January 11, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Seawater has been cutting like a knife through A-68A, the enormous Antarctic iceberg drifting in the southern…
A Galápagos Toroise. Credit: Alexander Forryan New research has unlocked the mystery of how the Galápagos Islands, a rocky, volcanic outcrop, with only modest rainfall…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The heavy snowfall that hit Spain a few days ago still…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on January 11, 2021, at…
The lack of snow cover in December left Japan’s iconic mountain looking a little different than usual. Even as record snowfall has clobbered Japan’s western…
January 11, 2020 Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971. Between January 7–9, 2021, a moist, low-pressure weather system over the…
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away. Sandwiched between the Mississippi River and Bayou…
The San Francisco Bay Area experienced significant drops in surface transportation during the initial onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The blue areas indicate areas of…
January 5, 2021 In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms. The Goldilocks zone…
The nutrients produced by whales when they poo has been found to fertilize the interior of forests around the world. Big animals have the power…
August 2, 2019. Click image for high-resolution view. Rising above the clouds and the Sea of Okhotsk, the uninhabited Atlasov Island appears as a distinctive…