Is It Feasible To Stop Hurricanes by Cooling the Ocean?
According to researchers, ocean cooling is an effectively impossible solution to mitigate disasters. According to recent research, even if we had infinite power to artificially…
According to researchers, ocean cooling is an effectively impossible solution to mitigate disasters. According to recent research, even if we had infinite power to artificially…
Starved for freshwater, the Great Salt Lake is getting saltier. The lake is losing sources of freshwater input to agriculture, urban growth, and drought. According…
Early on Sunday morning, a volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted, releasing huge plumes of smoke and a lava flow pouring into the…
A new network analysis simulates the cascading impacts of rising droughts on South American ecosystems. In the Amazon rainforest, for every three trees that die…
A new study makes an unexpected discovery. Geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg (Professor Rais Latypov and Dr. Sofya Chistyakova) were part of an international…
Magnetometers detected faint signals that may improve our understanding of what happens before earthquakes and offer promise for early detection. Scientists studying intermediate to large…
The ongoing drought has cut rice acreage in the Sacramento Valley in half. Normally the largest rice-growing region in California, the Sacramento Valley produces hundreds…
Storm-stirred sediment produced colorful swirls along the western coast of Florida. Hurricane Ian barreled into Florida’s southwestern coast on September 28, 2022, as a powerful…
Lake Trasimeno, the fourth largest lake in Italy, is featured in this week’s European Space Agency (ESA) Earth From Space image. Lake Trasimeno is located…
New research has found that the world’s next supercontinent, Amasia, will most likely form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to 300 million years….
Deep valleys buried under the seafloor of the North Sea record how the ancient ice sheets that used to cover the UK and Europe expelled…
Following unusual seismic disturbances in the Baltic Sea, several leaks were discovered last week in the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, near…
Several cities on the west coast of Florida lost much of their electric power for days after the storm. Hurricane Ian roared across Florida over…
A 6-mile (10-kilometer) asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. According to new evidence, the Chicxulub impact also triggered…
While the magma supplying super-eruptions develops over long periods of time, the magma disturbs the crust and then erupts in a matter of decades. Super-eruptions…
Sixty-six million years ago a miles-wide asteroid struck Earth, wiping out nearly all the dinosaurs and around three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species….
Hurricane Ian is pictured above in a stunning photograph that was taken by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS). When this photograph was…
Poorly defined land rights increase deforestation, but private land rights must be combined with strict environmental policies. Tropical deforestation causes widespread degradation of biodiversity and…