Marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right) deploys a sediment trap from the research vessel Roger Revelle during a 2018 expedition in the Gulf of Alaska. Buesseler’s…
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Scientists from the German Aereospace Center (DLR), using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, have noticed an unusual ozone hole form over the Arctic. This…
Here is an artist’s impression of what the red light that streaked the night sky over Japan in 620 A.D. may have looked like. Nearly…
San Rafael Waterfall on November 28, 2012. Surrounded by lush vegetation and rare butterflies, the San Rafael Waterfall was one of the most captivating landscapes…
This photograph shows ripples in the surface of Denman Glacier in East Antarctica that throw shadows against the ice. The glacier is melting at a…
Adansonia is a genus of deciduous trees known as baobabs that are found in arid regions of Madagascar, mainland Africa, Arabia, and Australia. A research…
Fossil rudist bivalves (Vaccinites) from the Al-Hajar Mountains, United Arab Emirates. Beer stein-shaped distant relative of modern clams captured snapshots of hot days in the…
The city of Jeddah’s seaport on Saudi Arabia’s western coast is pictured in this image from the Kompsat-2 satellite. The second largest city in the…
Illustration of the Antarctic rainforest. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/James McKay Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate…
Swarm of locusts. A small swarm of locusts (40 million) can consume as much food as 35,000 people. A single desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume its…
This visualization shows the Gulf Stream’s sea surface currents and temperatures. Credit: MIT/JPL project entitled Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II…
Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for the civilizations that…
Trilobite Fossil (Cheirurus ingricus). Trilobites are a group of marine arachnomorph arthropods that disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about…
This multi-temporal image combines three radar acquisitions from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission taken around one month apart to show changes in crop and land conditions…
Growing consumption of energy and fossil fuels over four decades did not play a significant role in increasing life expectancy across 70 countries. New research,…
A study from the University of Surrey has provided a comprehensive guide on which tree species are best for combatting air pollution that originates from…
The 2019 ozone hole reached its peak extent of 6.3 million square miles (16. 4 million square kilometers) on September 8, 2019, the lowest maximum…
Researchers from UCI and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are concerned that the unique topography beneath East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier could make it even more susceptible…
Artist’s rendering of Ikaria wariootia. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian. A team…
Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off the Denmark Strait in the background. The image was taken during a NASA IceBridge airborne survey…