Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind…
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In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed…
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El Argar used regional pottery networks to enforce political and economic dominance over its neighbors,…
Drone-based data on Greenland’s water vapor is improving climate models and understanding of future ice…
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Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth’s oceans were once green, hinting that this could be…
Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine…
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The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea −…
New research reveals that current global water models dramatically overestimate the amount of freshwater available…
Terrestrial carbon sinks grew by 30% from 1992 to 2019, with most carbon stored in…
Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which…
Fierce winds and dry conditions triggered dozens of wildfires across South Korea in March 2025,…
Conservation scientists are challenging the old-school mindset of preserving natural areas in a fixed, untouched…
New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a…
NASA’s AWE mission just released millions of gravity wave images from space, unveiling atmospheric forces…