On Earth snow condenses at altitude because air dilates during ascending movements, and thus cools (at the rate of 1°C approximately every 100 m). On…
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A 2019 eruption of Steamboat Geyser in the Norris Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. The geyser’s first documented activity was in 1878, and it…
An international research team that included three scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has discovered single-celled microorganisms in a location…
Overview of the study area and the schematic illustration of interaction of fault motion and the seafloor subsidence. Credit: University of Tsukuba University of Tsukuba…
As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to their role in future ice thinning and sea-level rise…
The quantitative model used in the study explains the enigmatic melt degrees and layered structures observed in most cratons on Earth. Monash University geologists have…
Aleutian Islands are an archipelago comprising dozens of islands with 40 active and 17 dormant volcanoes. A researcher from MIPT has proposed a new explanation…
A seismic station on the Greenland Ice Sheet installed by authors. Snow accumulation in one year is ~1.5 m, and the solar panels are buried…
Map showing the exact locations of Caspian Sea surface change. Credit: Prange et al. The water levels of the Caspian Sea will be 9 to…
Map of the Cascadia subduction zone. Megathrust earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones like Cascadia — Vancouver Island, Canada, to northern California…
This illustration shows NASA’s InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists are finding new mysteries since the geophysics mission…
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
This diatom species, Fragilariopsis kerguelensis, is a floating algae that is abundant in the Antarctic Ocean and was the major species in the samples collected…
Australia’s east coast is littered with the remnants of hundreds of volcanoes — the most recent just a few thousand years old — and scientists…
Hidden from view by ice kilometers thick, there is a vast network of lakes and streams at the base of the Antarctic ice sheet. This…
Geoscientists have long known that some parts of the continents formed in the Earth’s deep past, but the speed in which land rose above global…
A lava fountain during the 1959 eruption of Kilauea Iki. Credit: USGS Scientists striving to understand how and when volcanoes might erupt face a challenge:…
Low-energy (blue) and high-energy (yellow) electrons form during the process that generates the pulsating aurora. The high-energy ‘relativistic’ electrons could cause localized destruction of the…
Changes in the region’s ecosystem, driven by heatwaves and drought, could be devastating for large herbivores, such as wild sheep, antelope and camels. Credit: Usukhbayar…
Illustration showing a multilayer conceptual model of the transport mechanism of fresh groundwater from onshore to offshore in Hawai‘i. Credit: University of Hawai’i Twice as…