Earth Science News
July 16, 2025
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July 16, 2025 — Twenty-five years after first warning that oil spills would wane while invasive species and climate impacts would surge, an international team revisits its coastal forecasts and finds many bull's-eyes, alongside surprising misses. Plastic pollution, ...
July 12, 2025 — Even in a warming climate, brutal cold snaps still hammer parts of the U.S., and a new study uncovers why. High above the Arctic, two distinct polar vortex patterns — both distorted and displaced — play a major role in steering icy air toward ...
July 10, 2025 — Climate change is silently sapping the nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher temperatures are not only reshaping how crops grow but are also degrading their nutritional value especially in vital leafy greens ...
July 10, 2025 — A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, revealing two simultaneous wind–wave energy-transfer tricks—slow short waves steal power from the breeze, while long giants ...
July 10, 2025 — People can intuitively sense how biodiverse a forest is just by looking at photos or listening to sounds, and their gut feelings surprisingly line up with what scientists ...
July 8, 2025 — High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, raising alarms for ecosystems and sparking ideas ...
July 6, 2025 — DEHP, a chemical used in plastics, may have contributed to over 356,000 heart-related deaths globally in 2018—most heavily in Asia and the Middle East. The chemical, linked to inflammation in arteries, is found in items like food packaging and ...
July 5, 2025 — For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired with cutting-edge climate simulations, show that ...
July 3, 2025 — Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising culprit: ordinary thunderstorms. These quick, fierce storms, powered by climate change, are toppling trees with intense ...
July 3, 2025 — Breathing polluted air—even at levels considered “safe”—may quietly damage your heart. A new study using advanced MRI scans found that people exposed to more air pollution showed early signs ...
July 3, 2025 — When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ ...
July 2, 2025 — A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...
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June 30, 2025 — Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally set, controlled ...
June 28, 2025 — Parts of New Orleans are sinking at alarming rates — including some of the very floodwalls built to protect it. A new satellite-based study finds that some areas are losing nearly two inches of ...
June 27, 2025 — Beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered pulsing waves of molten rock rising from deep within the Earth — a geological ...
June 27, 2025 — At current emission rates, we re just over three years away from blowing through the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5 C. This new international study paints a stark picture: the pace ...
June 27, 2025 — Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter, they’re ...
June 24, 2025 — Over 300 million years ago, Earth experienced powerful bursts of carbon dioxide from natural sources—like massive volcanic eruptions—that ...
June 23, 2025 — Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise in sudden, sharp bursts even when global temperatures stay ...
June 21, 2025 — Beneath the forest floor lies an overlooked secret: many plants grow a second set of roots far deeper than expected sometimes over three feet down tapping into hidden nutrient stores and potentially ...
June 20, 2025 — A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term ...
June 20, 2025 — Arctic peatlands are expanding with rising temperatures, storing more carbon at least for now. But future warming could reverse this benefit, ...
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June 19, 2025 — AI researchers in Switzerland have found a way to dramatically cut cement s carbon footprint by redesigning its recipe. Their system simulates thousands of ingredient combinations, pinpointing those ...
June 18, 2025 — A breakthrough study has uncovered that the Southern Ocean's power to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere fluctuates dramatically depending on winter sea ice. When sea ice lingers longer ...
June 14, 2025 — Ten thousand years after mastodons disappeared, scientists have unearthed powerful fossil evidence proving these elephant cousins were vital seed spreaders for large-fruited trees in South America. ...
June 14, 2025 — Atmospheric rivers, while vital for replenishing water on the U.S. West Coast, are also the leading cause of floods though storm size alone doesn t dictate their danger. A groundbreaking study ...
June 13, 2025 — Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions like ...
June 15, 2025 — Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark ...
June 9, 2025 — For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly stayed stable despite extinctions and upheavals. A new study reveals that ...
June 8, 2025 — Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For decades, scientists puzzled over this D' layer. Now, groundbreaking ...
June 7, 2025 — Scientists have built a lab model that visually tracks how microscopic contact points between fault surfaces evolve during earthquake cycles, revealing the hidden mechanics behind both the slow ...
June 10, 2025 — What if all life on Earth followed a surprisingly simple pattern? New research shows that in every region, species tend to cluster in small hotspots and then gradually thin out. This universal rule ...
June 3, 2025 — Australia can reach net-zero emissions and still protect its natural treasures but only if everyone works together. New research from Princeton and The University of Queensland shows that the country ...
June 3, 2025 — To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller ...
June 3, 2025 — A new study found exposure to specific tiny particles in air pollution during pregnancy are associated with increased risk of various negative birth ...
June 3, 2025 — A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves. ...
June 3, 2025 — In the heart of Dublin, scientists have discovered that the air holds more than melodies and Guinness-infused cheer it carries invisible traces of life, from wildlife to drugs and even human ...
June 6, 2025 — Frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians are not just battling habitat loss and pollution they're now also contending with increasingly brutal heat waves and droughts. A sweeping 40-year study ...
June 3, 2025 — A new study details processes that keep pollutants aloft despite a drop in ...
June 2, 2025 — New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can withstand ...
June 2, 2025 — Global warming is continuously advancing. How quickly this will happen can now be predicted more accurately than ever before, thanks to a method developed by climate researchers. Anthropogenic global ...
June 2, 2025 — Researchers have developed a deep learning model called LSTM-SAM that predicts extreme water levels from tropical cyclones more efficiently and accurately, especially in data-scarce coastal regions, ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
- Fruit-Eating Mastodons? Ancient Fossils Confirm a Long-Lost Ecological Alliance
- Scientists Reveal the Hidden Trigger Behind Massive Floods
Friday, June 13, 2025
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Monday, June 9, 2025
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
- Collaboration Can Unlock Australia's Energy Transition Without Sacrificing Natural Capital
- Eating an Array of Smaller Fish Could Be Nutrient-Dense Solution to Overfishing
- Molecular Link Between Air Pollution and Pregnancy Risks
- First Direct Observation of the Trapped Waves That Shook the World in 2023
- DNA Floating in the Air Tracks Wildlife, Viruses -- Even Drugs
Friday, June 6, 2025
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Monday, June 2, 2025
- Geological Time Capsule Highlights Great Barrier Reef's Resilience
- Still on the Right Track? Researchers Enable Reliable Monitoring of the Paris Climate Goals
- Researchers Use Deep Learning to Predict Flooding This Hurricane Season
- Research Shows How Solar Arrays Can Aid Grasslands During Drought
- Air-Quality Monitoring Underestimates Toxic Emissions to Salton Sea Communities, Study Finds
Friday, May 30, 2025
- Small Currents, Big Impact: Satellite Breakthrough Reveals Hidden Ocean Forces
- Rising Soil Nitrous Acid Emissions, Driven by Climate Change and Fertilization, Accelerate Global Ozone Pollution
Thursday, May 29, 2025
- Birds Nested in Arctic Alongside Dinosaurs
- 2021's Hurricane Ida Could Have Been Even Worse for NYC
- Rock Record Illuminates Oxygen History
- Atlantic Ocean Current Unlikely to Collapse With Climate Change
- Does Planting Trees Really Help Cool the Planet?
- Amphibian Road Mortality Drops by Over 80% With Wildlife Underpasses, Study Shows
- Thousands of Sensors Reveal 3D Structure of Earthquake-Triggered Sound Waves
- A Cheap and Easy Potential Solution for Lowering Carbon Emissions in Maritime Shipping
- Does Outdoor Air Pollution Affect Indoor Air Quality? It Could Depend on Buildings' HVAC
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- New Velvet Worm Species a First for the Arid Karoo
- Involving Communities in Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Challenges Leads to Greater Innovation, Study Shows
- Even Birds Can't Outfly Climate Change
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- New Study Analyzes Air Quality Impacts of Wildfire Smoke
- Rapid Simulations of Toxic Particles Could Aid Air Pollution Fight
- The Ocean Seems to Be Getting Darker
Friday, May 23, 2025
- How Marine Plankton Adapts to a Changing World
- Modulation of Antiviral Response in Fungi Via RNA Editing
- When the Sea Moves Inland: A Global Climate Wake-Up Call from Bangladesh's Delta
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- New Study Reveals How Competition Between Algae Is Transforming the Gulf of Maine
- Diversity Is Key to Ecosystem Stability
- Breakthrough AI Model Could Transform How We Prepare for Natural Disasters
- Climate Change May Make It Harder to Reduce Smog in Some Regions
- Climate Change Poses Severe Threat to Bowhead Whale Habitat
- Mathematical Prediction of Seismic Wave Propagation in Magma Containing Crystals and Bubbles
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air
- Personal Space Chemistry Suppressed by Perfume and Body Lotion Indoors
- Imaging Technique Removes the Effect of Water in Underwater Scenes
- Yeast Reveals How Species Adapt to a Warmer Climate
- Scientists Invent Breakthrough Device to Detect Airborne Signs of Disease
- Fool's Gold: A Hidden Climate Stabilizer
- Southeast Asia Could Prevent Up to 36,000 Ozone-Related Early Deaths a Year by 2050 With Stricter Air Pollution Controls
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- How to Solve a Bottleneck for CO2 Capture and Conversion
- Coastal Squeeze Is Bad for Biodiversity, and for Us, Experts Say
- Thousands of Animal Species Threatened by Climate Change
- Clouding the Forecast: Study Reveals Why So Many Climate Models Are Wrong About the Rate of Arctic Warming
Monday, May 19, 2025
- Cover Crops May Not Be Solution for Both Crop Yield, Carbon Sequestration
- Glaciers Will Take Centuries to Recover Even If Global Warming Is Reversed, Scientists Warn
- First-of-Its-Kind Global Study Shows Grasslands Can Withstand Climate Extremes With a Boost of Nutrients
- Scientists Use Salinity to Trace Changes in the US Northeast Coastal Ocean
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Study Reveals Healing the Ozone Hole Helps the Southern Ocean Take Up Carbon
- Rising Temperatures Lead to Unexpectedly Rapid Carbon Release from Soils
- Ancient Ocean Sediments Link Changes in Currents to Cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 Million Years Ago
- New Model for More Accurate Landslide Prediction
- Language a Barrier in Biodiversity Work
- One in Ten Asthma Cases Can Be Avoided With a Better Urban Environment
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- A Vicious Cycle: How Methane Emissions from Warming Wetlands Could Exacerbate Climate Change
- Human Activity Reduces Plant Diversity Hundreds of Kilometers Away
- Scientists Use Fossils to Assess the Health of Florida's Largest Remaining Seagrass Bed: Surprisingly, It's Doing Well!
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Should We Protect Non-Native Species? A New Study Says Maybe
- What Behavioral Strategies Motivate Environmental Action?
- Engineers Tackle Sunlight Intermittency in Solar Desalination
- Satellite Data from Ship Captures Landslide-Generated Tsunami
- Tech Meets Tornado Recovery
- Sharp Depletion in Soil Moisture Drives Land Water to Flow Into Oceans, Contributing to Sea Level Rise
- The Ripple Effect of Small Earthquakes Near Major Faults
- New Global Model Shows How to Bring Environmental Pressures Back to 2015 Levels by 2050
- Climate Change Is Turning Coastal Lagoons Into 'salty Soup'
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Submarine Robot Catches an Underwater Wave
- Study Uncovers Mystery of How Mini Sand Dunes Form
- Helping Birds and Floating Solar Energy Coexist
Friday, May 9, 2025
- First Fossil Evidence of Endangered Tropical Tree Discovered
- Satellite Measures CO2 and NO2 Simultaneously from Power Plant Emissions for the First Time
- Internal Clocks Determine the Ups and Downs of Antarctic Krill
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Sulfur Runoff Amplifies Mercury Concentrations in Florida Everglades
- Study of Türkiye Gold Mine Landslide Highlights Need for Future Monitoring
- Waxing and Waning Prairie: New Study Unravels Causes of Ancient Climate Changes
- Database Reveals Vital Ocean Links to Aid Conservation
- Satellites Observe Glacier Committing 'ice Piracy'
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Warming Climate Making Fine Particulate Matter from Wildfires More Deadly and Expensive
- New Study Tracks Air Pollution and CO2 Emissions Across Thousands of Cities Worldwide
- Pioneering Research Reveals Tree-Mendous Potential of Inexpensive Drones to Help Community Forests Flourish and Unlock Restoration Funding
- Smart Spongy Device Captures Water from Thin Air
- Climate Change: Future of Today's Young People