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Ocean eddies could explain Antarctic sea-ice paradox

on 6 February 20229 min read

Despite global warming and the sea-ice loss in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea-ice extent has remained largely unchanged since 1979....

Researchers model ‘red snow’ algal blooming events

In Earth

on 6 February 20226 min read

Red snow is a unique phenomenon caused by blooms of red algae that live on the surface of snow. Now,...

Supermountains controlled the evolution of life on Earth

In Earth

on 5 February 20227 min read

Giant mountain ranges at least as high as the Himalayas and stretching up to 8,000 kilometers across entire supercontinents played...

Western US ‘megafloods’ during last ice age might not have been so mega

In Earth

on 5 February 20228 min read

After the Last Glacial Maximum in North America, a kilometer-thick ice dam at the toe of a glacier failed, allowing...

Future hurricanes likely to pose much greater flood risk to US East and Gulf coasts

In Earth

on 5 February 20229 min read

Extreme flooding events spawned by hurricanes are likely to become far more frequent along the Eastern and Southern U.S. coastlines...

How fault lines in a kitchen sink are changing what we know about geology

In Earth

on 5 February 20227 min read

In a new paper recently published in the journal Geology, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst unveiled a physical...

First-ever study looks at glacial lakes, dams in Alaska and potential for flooding

In Earth

on 5 February 20227 min read

Brianna Rick, a doctoral student in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University, has been conducting research in Alaska...

A human footprint on the Pantanal inferno

In Earth

on 4 February 202210 min read

One of the world’s largest freshwater wetlands—the Pantanal—spreads across a bowl-shaped plain where Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay meet. During the...

Ill-considered area-based biodiversity conservation could affect food security and health

In Earth

on 4 February 20228 min read

Area-based conservation targets aimed at stopping and reversing global biodiversity loss are set to form an integral part of the...

Forecasting landslides from space

In Earth

on 4 February 202210 min read

Landslides are devastating and often unpredictable. In 2017, without warning, a catastrophic landslide hit Xinmo Village in Southwest China, engulfing...