Light Pollution Impact – From excellent dark sky (left) to inner city sky (right). Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, P. Marenfeld Visibility of Stars in the Night Sky…
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Active bedrock seepage with yellow-brown weathering fluids; Lushan – Taiwan. Credit: Kristen Cook (GFZ) Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide — in…
Ancient kauri tree log from Ngawha, New Zealand. Credit: Nelson Parker Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42,000-year-old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis…
Engraving of Giraffes near Gobero in Niger, ca. 8,000 yrs old, witness green times in the desert. Credit: Mike Hettwer, 2006, www.hettwer.com Past River Activity…
Illustration depicting the onset of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction based on findings of Jurikova et al. (2020). Ocean acidification and vanishing marine life in the…
Bezymianny is an active stratovolcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia. Credit: GFZ For the first time, long-term photogrammetic series document the “life cycle”…
Electrons are locally heated to extremely high energies within the Van Allen Radiation Belts, new study finds. The Earth’s magnetic field is trapping high energy…
Picture of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. Credit: Zorn et al. 2020, Nature – Scientific Reports: DOI 10.1038/s41586-020-2212-1 Researchers create novel 3D models with…