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January 1, 2025
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Dec. 19, 2024 — New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today's Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land masses. That feature was then torn apart by millions ...
Dec. 23, 2024 — Climate change impacts not only life on land but also the largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystem, home to unique and largely unexplored fauna. Deep-sea animals, which have adapted to stable and ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — New research reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years -- almost twice as long as previously ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — Scientists have delivered the first measurements of Greenland Ice Sheet thickness change using data from ESA and NASA ice satellite missions. With global warming causing the Greenland Ice Sheet to ...
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Dec. 20, 2024 — Despite their reputation as buzzing nuisances, flies serve a critical role as some of the Earth's most prolific pollinators -- and new research ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study examines the correlation between fish yield and live coral habitats. Researchers analyzed the yields of nine fisheries dependent on Australia's Great Barrier Reef from 2016 to 2020. ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Communities up and down the West Coast of the United States can expect atmospheric rivers to evolve as the climate warms. But residents in Southern California will see much different changes than ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Researchers recently discovered that a virus, FloV-SA2, encodes one of the proteins needed to make ribosomes, the central engines in all cells that translate genetic information into proteins, the ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study about Earth's northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously thought. The study has important implications for understanding the origin ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Biologists used drone imagery to understand how nursing humpback whale mothers and their calves fare as they cross the Pacific Ocean. Recent declines ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral Raman imaging lidar ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Researchers analyzed radioisotopes in layers of fossilized volcanic ash. Decay of uranium to lead within tiny crystals enabled scientists to precisely pinpoint dates for certain events. They ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...
Dec. 3, 2024 — A research team has developed new approach to measure ocean memory and found that the North Atlantic Ocean has a memory of approximately one to two ...
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Dec. 13, 2024 — Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in losses every day, as was ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — A new database of African hippo populations has revealed huge gaps in our knowledge of where the megaherbivores live and thrive, with populations fragmented and reliant on protected ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Colony surveys of common murres, an Alaskan seabird, show the full effects of the 2014-16 marine heat wave known as 'the blob.' Analysis of 13 colonies surveyed between 2008 and 2022 finds ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. The work has revealed significant effects on both downstream (44% decrease in water flow) and upstream (17% flow increase) rivers, ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Plastic pollution is a growing problem in Japan, prompting cleanup efforts to recover plastic litter from water bodies. However, research on recovery rates from different river basins remains ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a rare example of 'great fish parenting' with a common coral reef species found to actively protect their young by eating ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — Recycling all the human and livestock feces and urine on the planet would contribute substantially to meeting the nutrient supply for all crops worldwide, thereby reducing the need to mine ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3C much faster than previously ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — Mathematicians have applied statistical mechanics to climate change detection and attribution for first time. They have shown how to separate the 'signal' of human-made climate change from ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — Geoscientists have created a new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages. It reveals that the early Antarctic ice sheet melted more rapidly than previously ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — Greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than 2 times faster than those from the rest of the global economy. The study tracked international and domestic travel for 175 countries ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Fences are an effective stationary method of corralling livestock, but their sharp borders can create sudden changes in native grassland vegetation and the pollinators and birds that live there. ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home. Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. Archaeologists analyzed ship logs, ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — Recent decades have seen a rapid surge in damages and disruptions caused by flooding. Experts call on scientists to more accurately model these risks and caution against overly dramatized reporting ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — Researchers show that the all-time record low in winter sea ice extent in 2023 can be explained by warm Southern Ocean conditions and patterns in the winds that circled Antarctica months earlier, ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — To mitigate climate change, human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced as quickly and drastically as possible. Additionally, some of the CO2 already emitted needs to be safely removed ...
Autonomous Imaging Robot Plays a Crucial Role in Assessing Embryos' Response to Environmental Change
Dec. 6, 2024 — The opensource LabEmbryoCam uses 3D-printed components to form a robotic microscope and is the result of over a decade of research at the University of Plymouth. Its creators say the instrument can ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — High-sensitivity climate models should not be excluded when predicting future regional climate impacts because the level of warming measured globally is not always the only good indicator of regional ...
Dec. 5, 2024 — Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, heatwaves at sea -- 2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial level, another ...
Friday, December 13, 2024
- The Great Ripple: How a Tsunami Can Disrupt Global Trade
- Hippos 'vulnerable' As Gaps in Data Hinder Conservation Efforts
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- Surveys Show Full Scale of Massive Die-Off of Common Murres Following the 'warm Blob' In the Pacific Ocean
- Floods, Insufficient Water, Sinking River Deltas: Hydrologists Map Changing River Landscapes Across the Globe
- Researchers Reveal Key Factors Behind Japan's Plastic Waste Removal Rates in Rivers
- How Helicopter Parenting Protects Baby Reef Fish
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- AI Predicts That Most of the World Will See Temperatures Rise to 3°C Much Faster Than Previously Expected
- Leap in Modelling Human Impact on Climate May Lead to Early Warning of Climate Disasters
- Antarctica's Irregular Heartbeat Shows Signs of Rapid Melting
- Tourism Leads the Pack in Growing Carbon Emissions
Monday, December 9, 2024
- Virtual Fences Are a Pollinator-Friendly Option for Ranchlands
- New Ocean Predator Discovered in the Atacama Trench
- Bad Weather Led Dutch Ship Into Western Australian Coast
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Scientists Urged to Pull the Plug on 'bathtub Modeling' Of Flood Risk
- Record-Low Antarctic Sea Ice Can Be Explained and Forecast Months out by Patterns in Winds
- How Do Marine Food Webs Respond to Increasing Alkalinity?
- Autonomous Imaging Robot Plays a Crucial Role in Assessing Embryos' Response to Environmental Change
- Impact Studies Should Include High-Sensitivity Climate Models
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Rapid Surge in Global Warming Mainly Due to Reduced Planetary Albedo
- DNA of 1,000 Year-Old Maize Sheds Light on Origins of Globally Important Food Crop
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- After Decades of Plantation Agriculture, Coconut Palms Dominate Over Half of Pacific Atoll Forests
- Swelling Streams -- Climate Change Causes More Sediment in High-Mountain Rivers
- Massive Asteroid Impacts Did Not Change Earth's Climate in the Long Term
- What Triggered Nepal's Catastrophic 2021 Flood -- And Could It Happen Again?
- AI Helps Researchers Dig Through Old Maps to Find Lost Oil and Gas Wells
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Ocean Density Identified as a Key Driver of Carbon Capture by Marine Plankton
- Alaska's Changing Environment
- Countdown to an Ice-Free Arctic: New Research Warns of Accelerated Timelines
Monday, December 2, 2024
- New Research Provides an Improved Understanding of Earthquake Hazards in the Permian Basin
- Digital Twins of the Earth Is a Misleading Term as Computer Models Are Always a Simplified Representation of Reality
- Warming Temperatures May Shrink Wetland Carbon Sinks
Friday, November 29, 2024
- Satellite Evidence Bolsters Case That Climate Change Caused Mass Elephant Die-Off
- The Melting of Greenland: A Climate Challenge With Major Implications for the 21st Century
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
- Global Food Yields Have Grown Steadily During Last Six Decades, Study Finds
- Oceans Emit Sulfur and Cool the Climate More Than Previously Thought
- Unexplained Heat-Wave 'hotspots' Are Popping Up Across the Globe
- Moving 'hotspot' Created World's Longest Straight Underwater Mountain Belt
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Enhancing Seaglider Technology to Measure Carbon Dioxide
- Researchers Show Complex Relationship Between Arctic Warming and Arctic Dust
- Delay and Pay: Climate Tipping Point Costs Quadruple After Waiting
- Under-Ice Species at Risk as Arctic Warms
- Quantum Mechanism Identified as a Key to Accelerating Ocean Temperatures
Monday, November 25, 2024
- Crayfish Map Gives Conservation a Helping Claw
- New AI Tool Generates Realistic Satellite Images of Future Flooding
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- Exploring the Impact of Offshore Wind on Whale Deaths
- Less Cold: Ocean Cold Period in the Early 20th Century Less Pronounced Than Previously Thought
- Fewer Than 7% of Global Hotspots for Whale-Ship Collisions Have Protection Measures in Place
- Climate-Driven Hazards Increases Risk for Millions of Coastal Residents, Study Finds
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- Research Highlights the Pressures Human Activities Place on Tropical Marine Ecosystems
- The Factors Behind the Shifting Trends of Ischemic Heart Disease and Stroke
- Climate Change and Air Pollution Could Risk 30 Million Lives Annually by 2100
- Researchers Catalog the Microbiome of US Rivers
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Political Shadows Cast by the Antarctic Curtain
- How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea Was Lost 5.5 Million Years Ago
- Redefining Net Zero Will Not Stop Global Warming
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
- Mountain Lions Coexist With Outdoor Recreationists by Taking the Night Shift
- Rainforest Protection Reduces the Number of Respiratory Diseases
- One or Many? Exploring the Population Groups of the Largest Animal on Earth
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Four Global Policies Could Eliminate More Than 90% of Plastic Waste and 30% of Linked Carbon Emissions by 2050
- Wave-Predicting Robots Could Cut Green Energy Costs
- Spectacular Chimneys Discovered in the Dead Sea
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Increase Again in 2024
- 'Drowning' Mangrove Forests in Maldives Signal Global Coastal Threat
- Possible to Limit Climate Change to 1.5°C, If EU and 17 Other Countries Go Beyond Their Own Targets
- First Amber Find on the Antarctic Continent
- Novel Machine Learning Techniques Measure Ocean Oxygen Loss More Accurately
Friday, November 8, 2024
- Study of Mountaineering Mice Sheds Light on Evolutionary Adaptation
- Measurements from 'lost' Seaglider Offer New Insights Into Antarctic Ice Melting
- Geologists Rewrite Textbooks With New Insights from the Bottom of the Grand Canyon
- How Much Climate Change Is in the Weather?
- Pioneering Planetary Boundaries Science as Key to Mitigating Rising Planetary Risks
- Deep Ocean Clues to a Million-Year-Old Ice Age Puzzle Revealed in New Study
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Some of the World's Least Polluting Populations Are at Much Greater Risk of Flooding Fueled by Climate Change
- Planting Trees in the Arctic Could Make Global Warming Worse, Not Better, Say Scientists
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
- Satellite Imagery May Help Protect Coastal Forests from Climate Change
- Small Reductions to Meat Production in Wealthier Countries May Help Fight Climate Change, New Analysis Concludes
- Reconstructing Ancient Climate Provides Clues to Climate Change
- Domino Effect in the Amazon Region
- New Research Estimates Carbon Emissions from 22 Million Stream Reaches Across the US
Friday, November 1, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
- Remote Control Eddies: Upwelled Nutrients Boost Productivity Around Hawaiian Islands
- Study Reveals Acceleration in Pacific Upper-Ocean Circulation Over Past 30 Years, Impacting Global Weather Patterns
- Global Ocean Oscillations and Climate Change Affect Weather Patterns in the Serengeti
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- Laser Measurements to Track Space Debris and Observe Water Masses
- New Genetic Web Tool to Help Restore Climate-Resilient Marine Ecosystems
- Study Shows Natural Regrowth of Tropical Forests Has Immense Potential to Address Environmental Concerns
- Large Meltwater Accumulation Revealed Inside Greenland Ice Sheet
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- More Than Half of European Heat-Related Deaths in Summer 2022 Attributed to Anthropogenic Warming
- Oceanographers Record the Largest Predation Event Ever Observed in the Ocean
- Scientist on Personal Mission to Improve Global Water Safety Makes Groundbreaking Discovery
- Coastal Flooding During Hurricanes Helene and Milton Tracked