Australian hot and dry extremes can have devastating effects on human health and resources. Changes in springtime winds high above the South Pole are set…
Posts published in “Earth”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Comparison composition that shows Mer de Glace glacier from 1919 (left) to 2019 (right, in color). Credit: Walter Mittelholzer, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich & Dr. Kieran Baxter,…
An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago created…
The Jason-2/OSTM satellite provided insights into ocean currents and sea-level rise with tangible benefits to marine forecasting, meteorology, and understanding of climate change. These observations…
Microplastic pellets from the Great Lakes study. The pellet study involved sampling of 66 beaches on each Great Lake over a two-week period in October…
Left: Large coccoliths – disks made of calcium carbonate that armor single-celled algae called coccolithophores – from the Middle Miocene about 16 million to 11.6…
Soft coral are now dominating large areas of the shadow reef which in 1928 had many species of hard corals too. Credit: Professor Maoz Fine,…
An artist’s rendition of the Tyrannosaurus rex with the 3D imaging showing muscle activation in its head. Illustration courtesy of Brian Engh. University of Missouri…
Delicate wash cycles in washing machines found to release more plastic microfibers than other cycles. New research led by Newcastle University has shown that it…
Boat fouling in Antibes, France. Credit: Aylin Ulman This is the first study in the Mediterranean to combine boat and marina sampling data with crew…
Artist’s reconstruction of two rauisuchians fighting over a desiccated corpse of a mammal-relative in the Triassic of southern Africa. In the background, dinosaurs and mammal-like…
Over millions of years, Earth’s summits and valleys have moved and shifted, resulting in the dramatic landscapes of peaks and shadows we know today. Mountains…
Homalictus terminalis is named so to indicate that, like many Fijian bees, it is nearing its limit and is at risk of climate-related extinction. Credit:…
This new mineral has a curious chemical signature, and was discovered inside a diamond by UAlberta student Nicole Meyer. The mineral has been named goldschmidtite…
This is an illustration of the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Credit:…
Surface meltwater draining through the ice and beneath Antarctic glaciers is causing sudden and rapid accelerations in their flow towards the sea, according to new…
This is Lõimastu beach in Estonia. Credit: Tallinn University Agnes Anderson, doctoral student of the School of Natural Sciences and Health of Tallinn University, recently…
This is a sesame flower growing atop a sesame plant in western Texas research fields. Credit: Irish Lorraine B. Pabuayon Texas has a long history…
A new study has estimated for the first time how the eruption of Mount Tambora changed the probability of the cold and wet European ‘year…
In the Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF), a field experiment in Saxony-Anhalt operated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), scientists have been researching…