Galong Co. Credit: Huang Chen Revealing “invisible” glacier loss underwater Recent research shows that the mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the Himalayas has been…
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Artist’s illustration of China’s Chang’e 5 lander on the Moon. Researchers have discovered that impact glass beads in Chang’e-5 lunar soils contain water. These glass…
Air pollution is a serious and growing environmental problem affecting the health and well-being of people and ecosystems all over the world. Air pollution contributes…
Landscape evolution over the past 100 million years. Credit: Dr. Tristan Salles, The University of Sydney / AAAS An advanced digital tool can assist us…
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. It occurred about 252 million years ago…
This illustration of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into…
ARCTIC2018 expedition. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Andreas Rogge Scientists discover a new pathway for the movement of carbon-rich materials from productive Arctic coastal waters to the…
Impressions of the Ediacaran fossils Dickinsonia (at center) with the smaller anchor-shaped Parvancorina (left) in sandstone of the Ediacara Member from the Nilpena Ediacara National…
A satellite image of the Mississippi River Delta with land shown in bright green and water shown in dark blue. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image…
A picture of a building following an earthquake. According to a study led by the University of California, Los Angeles geophysicists powerful supershear earthquakes, previously…
Don’t worry, an eruption is not imminent. Research reveals magma activity beneath Mount Edgecumbe. According to a recent study from the Alaska Volcano Observatory, magma…
It is estimated that melting ice in the Antarctic could sea levels to rise by up to 50 meters. A new study charts 45,000,000 years…
Stitched together from 28 images, this view from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover was captured after the rover ascended the steep slope of a geologic feature…
The findings could help improve climate change prediction models. Cloud study clarifies the effects of aerosols. According to a recent study, aerosol particles in the…
Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft were used to create a…
Scientists have discovered that much more carbon exists in the mantle than predicted. Researchers find rust and diamonds at the Earth’s core-mantle boundary. On the…
According to the researchers, the proliferation of plants completely altered the biosphere of Earth. A new study reveals that land plants changed Earth’s composition. According…
Scientists have determined that Earth’s ancient plume mantle (the deep part) had a water concentration that was a factor of 4 to 250 times lower…
If climate change has already gone too far, what could be our emergency solutions? Credit: MIT “Space Bubbles” – The Deflection of Solar Radiation Using…
Bombardment History Revealed: The Moon Sustained Twice As Many Impacts As Can Be Seen on Its Surface
This multi-temporal illumination map of the lunar south pole was created from images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Scientists have…