Earth Science

Credit: Alvin/WHOI Scientists at Caltech and Occidental College have discovered a methane-fueled symbiosis between worms and bacteria at the bottom of the sea, shedding new light on the ecology of deep-sea environments. They found that…

Study by researchers at Brazil's National Disaster Surveillance and Early Warning Center (CEMADEN) also shows a rise in the number of consecutive dry days, suggesting that extreme rainfall events are concentrated in shorter, more widely…

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean and provided forecasters with a visible image of newly formed Tropical Cyclone…

Credit: Tarmo Virtanen A Nordic study sheds new light on the role of northern peatlands in regulating the regional climate. According to the researchers, peatlands will remain carbon sinks until the end of this century, but their…

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview As Tropical Cyclone Irondro continues to move through the Southern Indian Ocean, NASA's Terra satellite saw the storm developing an eye as it continued to intensify. On April 3, 2020, the Moderate…

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 3, 2020 -- You might have heard that COVID-19 vaccine trials are underway in Seattle. What exactly is being tested? How much longer will these tests take? And when can we…

Credit: James Rule A fossilised seal tooth found on a Victorian beach could hold the key to uncovering the history and geography of earless seals that graced Australia's shores three million years ago. This prehistoric…

PULLMAN, Wash. - A research team led by Washington State University has found that while drylands around the world will expand at an accelerated rate because of future climate change, their average productivity will likely be reduced.…

Low-carbon technologies that are smaller scale, more affordable, and can be mass deployed are more likely to enable a faster transition to net-zero emissions, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. Innovations…

Credit: Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa - Backed by experimental data from a laboratory machine that simulates the huge forces involved in glacier flow, glaciologists have written an equation…

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in the newly formed Tropical Cyclone Irondro using infrared light to determine where the strongest storms were located. One of the ways NASA researches tropical cyclones…

Credit: Darryl Lloyd Recent years have brought unusually large and damaging wildfires to the Pacific Northwest - from the Carlton Complex Fire in 2014 that was the largest in Washington's history, to the 2017 fire season in…

Researchers argue more robust research techniques are needed to fully understand immediate Arctic impactCredit: AAS Previous research studies have revealed how rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic may impact the rest…

Credit: Manu San Felix, National Geographic It's not too late to rescue global marine life, according to a study outlining the steps needed for marine ecosystems to recover from damage by 2050. University of Queensland…

Credit: Lili Wang Open biomass burning (OBB) has a significant impact on regional air quality, especially on the heavy haze pollution in Northeast China (NEC) in recent years. Recent research published in Atmospheric and Oceanic…

The risk for violent clashes increases after weather extremes such as droughts or floods hit people in vulnerable countries, an international team of scientists finds. Vulnerable countries are characterized by a large population,…

Credit: Megan Jacobs, Baylor University, Texas You wait ages for a pterosaur and then four come along at once. Hot on the heels of a recent paper discovering three new species of pterosaur, University of Portsmouth…

Research answers question on how some magmatic rocks contain random proportions of minerals than what is expected for rocks of their type.Credit: Wits University Researchers at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa,…

Credit: Kern County Fire Department In California, a changing climate has made autumn feel more like summer, with hotter, drier weather that increases the risk of longer, more dangerous wildfire seasons, according to a new…

Aust-German research shows opportunity triggered armed violenceCredit: InsideClimate News Researchers have found strong evidence that the risk for armed conflict is higher after a climate-related disaster, but only in vulnerable…