by Nicolas Flament, Andrew Merdith, Ömer F. Bodur and Simon Williams, The Conversation Deep in the Earth beneath us lie...
Marine industries are being urged to learn from one another to better protect marine life and their environments. That is...
A common problem in the geosciences is the need to deduce unseen physical structure based on limited observations. For instance,...
The western United States this century is facing a greatly heightened risk of heavy rains inundating areas that were recently...
Just like flash floods, flash droughts come on fast—drying out soil in a matter of days to weeks. These events...
Virginia Tech researchers, in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have discovered that key parts of the global carbon cycle...
Stem growth of tropical trees is reduced in years when the dry season is warmer and drier than normal. This...
Physicists and soil scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have teamed up to develop...
Call them hitchhikers; the microbes that latch onto particles at the ocean’s surface have a big job. They ride along...
Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth’s most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than...
A first-of-its-kind study looking at surface meltwater lakes around the East Antarctic Ice Sheet across a seven-year period has found...
Deserts may seem lifeless and inert, but they are very much alive. Sand dunes, in particular, grow and move—and according...
