The Earth’s nitrogen cycle is among the most heavily exceeded planetary boundaries. Agricultural production and fossil fuel burning release nitrogen...
The preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments has long been a key question remaining unclear in understanding the long-term...
Scientists at The University of Manchester have effectively simulated how bubbles grow in volcanic magma thanks to a novel pressure...
Energy companies use persistent and personalized pressure to get landowners to give permission for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and even when...
A megadrought that occurred 4,200 years ago had catastrophic impacts, potentially wiping out early empires and leading to large-scale changes...
For the decades since their discovery, seismic signals known as PKP precursors have challenged scientists. Regions of Earth’s lower mantle...
An international team of climate scientists have used a 627-year coral record from Fiji to reveal unprecedented insights into ocean...
A University of Queensland library—full of hailstones instead of books—is helping researchers to better understand and predict damaging storms. Dr....
Imagine having to do your job, but not being able to visually process the data right in front of you....
The Colorado River and its tributaries provide water for hydropower, irrigation and drinking water in seven U.S. states and Mexico....
A rock formation spanning Ireland and Scotland may be the world’s most complete record of “snowball Earth,” a crucial moment...
The Yukon River flows west across Alaska toward the Bering Sea, eroding Arctic permafrost along its banks and transporting sediment...
