Greater Evolutionary Diversity in Amazon Is Associated With More Forest Productivity
An international team of researchers led by the University of Leeds have revealed for the first time that Amazon forests with the greatest evolutionary diversity…
An international team of researchers led by the University of Leeds have revealed for the first time that Amazon forests with the greatest evolutionary diversity…
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now “active,” a group of leading scientists have warned. This threatens the…
Test under Monterey Bay shows undersea fiber-optic cables can detect quakes, fault systems. Fiber-optic cables that constitute a global undersea telecommunications network could one day…
Burning of the rainforest in southwestern Amazonia (the Brazilian, Peruvian, and Bolivian Amazon) may increase the melting of tropical glaciers in the Andes, according to…
Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic information from electronic tags. Thousands of marine animals are…
International study quantified and characterized charcoal and soot produced by incomplete burning of trees and transported by river to the Atlantic. Besides swathes of destroyed…
There’s chaos in the night sky, about 60 to 600 miles (100 to 1,000 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. Called the ionosphere, this layer of Earth’s…
Carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! How can it be so important in global warming if…
Earth’s climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects of those changes on our future. For the first time,…
Compelling Hard Evidence: El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age El Ninos have become more intense in the industrial age, which stands to…
Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the…
A new study from an international group of scientists finds we are releasing more of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide into the atmosphere than previously…
Two fundamental goals of humanity are to eradicate poverty and reduce climate change, and it is critical that the world knows whether achieving these goals…
Every drop of fresh water contains thousands of different organic molecules that have previously gone unnoticed. By measuring the diversity of these molecules and how…
Laboratory results from Leipzig question current knowledge on the degradation of dimethyl sulfide within the sulfur cycle. An international research team was able to experimentally…
This past week, southeast France was hit by a magnitude 5 earthquake with tremors felt between Lyon and Montélimar. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission has…
Arctic regions have captured and stored carbon for tens of thousands of years, but a new study shows winter carbon emissions from the Arctic may…
When will the next eruption take place? Examination of samples from Indonesia’s Mount Merapi shows that the explosivity of stratovolcanoes rises when mineral-rich gases seal…