Geography News
May 3, 2025
Top Headlines
Apr. 30, 2025 — Trees, parks, wetlands and green roofs can no longer be seen as a 'nice-to-have' aesthetic enhancement but a vital component for creating climate-resilient, healthier and more equitable cities, ...
May 1, 2025 — A groundbreaking study reveals that North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving. Researchers analyzed 36 million bird observations shared by birdwatchers to the Cornell Lab's eBird program ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — The well-known salmon life cycle has long been described as going only one way at a time. Juvenile salmon hatch and swim down rivers to the ocean, where they grow and mature before returning to the ...
May 1, 2025 — The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the north, according to climate ...
Latest Headlines
updated 10:50pm EDT
May 1, 2025 — Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our understanding ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Increasing urban vegetation by 30% could save over one-third of all heat related deaths, saving up to 1.16 million lives globally from 2000 to 2019 ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — The global energy system may be faced with an inescapable trade-off between urgently addressing climate change versus avoiding an energy shortfall, ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Like farmland in Australia, native forests struggle with drought and flooding, so future management decisions need more sophisticated systems to monitor and manage their water needs. A new study aims ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Scientists believe they have found a way to improve warning systems for vulnerable communities threatened by humid heatwaves, which are on the rise due to climate change and can be damaging and even ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions -- known as fire weather -- that facilitate the spread of wildfires. ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 25, 2025 — A new study has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The findings suggest that the capacity of polar oceans to ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Multiple climate 'tipping points' are likely to be triggered if global policies stay on their current course, new research ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Some species that breed over large geographic areas can still be adapted to a fairly narrow range of climates, making them more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. Also, species ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — An international team of scientists and crew on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor (too) was the first to film the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural ...
Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colombia's eastern ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Deep sea mining operations are expected to increase the negative impact on environmental indicators by up to 13 per cent, a change categorized as having 'great' significance, relative to ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — O'ahu's sandy beaches are at risk. New research has determined that 81% of O'ahu's coastline could experience erosion by 2100, with 40% of this loss happening by 2030. ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Study reveals commonly detected environmental levels of clobazam -- a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders -- increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild. ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research has ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A study has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high temperatures over the last two decades. The relative risk of mortality at the coldest temperatures has decreased by ...
Friday, April 25, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- World on Course to Trigger Multiple Climate 'tipping Points' Unless Action Accelerates
- Why Are Patagonian Glaciers Rapidly Losing Mass?
- Melting Glaciers at the End of the Ice Age May Have Sped Up Continental Drift, Fueled Volcanic Eruptions
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Big Brains and Big Ranges Might Not Save Birds from Climate Change
- Major Dust-Up for Water in the Colorado River
Monday, April 21, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
- Lake Deposits Reveal Directional Shaking During Devastating 1976 Guatemala Earthquake
- Seismology: How Wide Are Faults?
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Colombia's Peatlands Could Be a Crucial Tool to Fight Climate Change: But First We Have to Find Them
- Seismologists Share Early Analyses of Myanmar Earthquake
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Pioneering Research Reveals Arctic Matter Pathways Poised for Major Shifts Amidst Climate Change
- Deep-Sea Mining Risks Leads Study to Urge Shift to Circular Solutions
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Drug Pollution Alters Salmon Migration
- New Study on Natural Oil Seeps in the Deep Sea
- Caspian Sea Decline Threatens Endangered Seals, Coastal Communities and Industry
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Europe's Population Is Adapting Better to Cold Than to Heat
- Tree Rings Track Atmospheric Mercury Cheaply
- Sink or Swim: The Fate of Sinking Tectonic Plates Depends on Their Ancient Tectonic Histories
- Mapping Mercury Contamination in Penguins of the Southern Ocean
- With New Database Researchers May Be Able to Predict Rare Milky Seas Bioluminescent, Glowing Event
- Mediterranean Hunter Gatherers Navigated Long-Distance Sea Journeys Well Before the First Farmers
- 8 Million Years of 'Green Arabia'
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Universal Spatiotemporal Scaling Laws Governing Daily Population Flow in Cities Revealed
- Declining Insect Biodiversity in the Tropics
- Long-Term Health Impacts of Flooding Revealed
Monday, April 7, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Oxygen Is Running Low in Inland Waters, and Humans Are to Blame
- Soil Conditions Significantly Increase Rainfall in World's Megastorm Hotspots
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Climate Change and Prehistoric Human Populations: Eastward Shift of Settlement Areas at the End of the Last Ice Age
- How GPS Helps Older Drivers Stay on the Roads
- Riding the AI Wave Toward Rapid, Precise Ocean Simulations
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Southern Ocean Warming Will Mean a Wetter West Coast, US
- New Computer Model Reveals How Bronze Age Scandinavians Could Have Crossed the Sea
- Early Earth's First Crust Composition Discovery Rewrites Geological Timeline
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
- New Warnings of a 'Butterfly Effect' -- In Reverse
- Thinner Arctic Sea Ice May Affect Global Ocean Circulation
Friday, March 28, 2025
- Global Patterns in Seed Plant Distribution Over Millions of Years
- Drone Experiment Reveals How Greenland Ice Sheet Is Changing
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Melting Ice, More Rain Drive Southern Ocean Cooling
- How Calcium May Have Unlocked the Origins of Life's Molecular Asymmetry
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Virtual Reality Videos Increase Environmental Awareness
- Researchers' Breakthrough Method Reveals Clouds Amplify Global Warming Far More Than Previously Understood
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Ocean Eddies -- The Food Trucks of the Sea
- Ecosystem Disrupted Following the Disappearance of Great White Sharks
- Refining Siberia's Land Cover Data: A Leap Forward for Climate Science
Monday, March 24, 2025
- 5,700-Year Storm Archive Shows Rise in Tropical Storms and Hurricanes in the Caribbean
- Introduced Pacific Oysters Provide Biodiversity Benefits in Port River
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Shrinking Andean Glaciers Threaten Water Supply of 90 Million People, Global Policy Makers Warn
- Aotearoa Once Home to Elephant Seals
- Study Identifies Viruses in Red Tide Blooms for the First Time
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- New Carbon-Negative Material Could Make Concrete and Cement More Sustainable
- Sulfur Bacteria Team Up to Break Down Substances in the Seabed
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
- Smoke from Wildland-Urban Interface Fires More Deadly Than Remote Wildfires
- Pacific Island Water Security Requires New Approach
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Earth's 'dirty Mirror' Effect Is Accelerating Climate Change
- Arctic Sea Ice Loss Drives Drier Weather Over California and Wetter Over Spain and Portugal
- Boreal Forest: Taking Taiga's Temperature
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Discovery: The Great Whale Pee Funnel Moves Vital Nutrients
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Study Warns of Deadly Future Marine Heat Waves in East Coast Estuaries
- AI Has 'great Potential' For Detecting Wildfires, New Study of the Amazon Rainforest Suggests
- Climate Change Threatens Future of Banana Export Industry
- Tracking Polar Bears During Their Most Secretive Stage of Life
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Flooding Expected Sooner in Hawai'i's Sinking Coastal Areas
- Caribou Migration Patterns Are Shrinking
- Footprints of Deep-Sea Mining
- Satellite Image Analysis Delivers New Insight Into the Functional Diversity of Tropical Forests
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Giant Clone of Seaweed in the Baltic Sea
- World's Critical Food Crops at Imminent Risk from Rising Temperatures
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Sea Otters Help Kelp Forests Recover -- But How Fast Depends on Where They Are
- Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current
Friday, February 28, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- When the Wild Things Are: Surprising Details of Mammalian Daily Activity
- School of Rock: Properties of Rocks in Fault Zones Contribute to Earthquake Generation
- Environmental Impact of Unexploded Ordnance in the Baltic Sea
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve
- Longest-Runout Undersea Sediment Flows Analyzed in Unprecedented Detail
- Africa Set to Reach 1.5 C Climate Change Threshold by 2040 Even Under Low Emission Scenarios
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Arctic Study Urges Stronger Climate Action to Prevent Catastrophic Warming
- How Young Salmon Navigate a Gauntlet of Danger En Route to the Sea
- Unexpected Discoveries in Study of Giraffe Gut Flora
- Mega-Iceberg from Antarctica on Collision Course With South Georgia: Harbinger of Things to Come?
- Research Provides New Detail on the Impact of Volcanic Activity on Early Marine Life
Friday, February 21, 2025
- Underwater Mics and Machine Learning Aid Right Whale Conservation
- The Rising Tide of Sand Mining: A Growing Threat to Marine Life