Marine biologists have long known the power of microbes to transform carbon released by surface phytoplankton—algae on the surface of...
Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science recently discovered rare deep-sea brine pools...
A groundbreaking new study recently published in the journal Earth’s Future and led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts...
For decades, environmental activists along with some government officials and scientists have argued that rich countries should pay the most...
Using details from historical newspaper accounts and letters, seismologists have learned more about Haiti’s 1860 Jour de Pâques (Easter Sunday)...
Senckenberg researchers Serena Abel and Angelika Brandt, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute—Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine...
Earth’s mantle is the thick layer of silicate rock between Earth’s crust and its molten core, making up about 84%...
The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers at the University of...
Located between Australia and New Zealand, the Tasman Sea is an important but so far neglected component of the global...
A new study shows that future ecosystem functioning will increasingly depend on water availability. Using recent simulations from climate models,...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought the threat of nuclear warfare to the forefront. But how would modern nuclear detonations...
Researchers investigating rocks in India have found chemical evidence of a series of rapid fluctuations in climate during the greatest...

