Rivers Transport Carbon From Fires Into Oceans, Locking It In Storage for Thousands of Years
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
Solar geoengineering proposals will weaken extratropical storm tracks in both hemispheres, scientists find. How can the world combat the continued rise in global temperatures? How…
Tracking Fossil Fuel Emissions With Carbon-14 Researchers from NOAA and the University of Colorado have devised a breakthrough method for estimating national emissions of carbon…
All living things have tipping points: points of no return, beyond which they cannot thrive. A new report in Science shows that maximum daily temperatures…
Global warming is causing species to search for more temperate environments to migrate to, but it is marine species – according to the latest results…
PNNL-led researchers: Conditions that started decades ago are changing forests and are likely to continue. Ongoing environmental changes are transforming forests worldwide, resulting in shorter…
Climate change could cause abrupt shifts in the amount of vegetation growing in parts of Great Britain, new research shows. The University of Exeter studied…
Sea snakes first entered the marine environment 15 million years ago and have been evolving ever since to survive in its changing light conditions, according…
Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years ago, that killed much of the Earth’s plant and freshwater…
MIT system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks. Artificial intelligence has become a focus of certain ethical concerns, but it also…
New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ angle. The simulations show that…
The world’s deep oceans are warming at a slower rate than the surface, but it’s still not good news for deep-sea creatures according to an…
DNA scientists sampling the New Jersey shore bottle the changing ranges of marine life predicted a decade ago; Fishing DNA from seawater: a harmless, economical…
The capture and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground is one of the key components of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) reports on…
Scientists have created the first-ever large-scale map of microscopic algae as they bloomed across the surface of snow along the Antarctic Peninsula coast. Results indicate…
Research on Russian drill core challenges long-standing models of oxygenation on Earth. Earth may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously…
In almost every region of the world where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger. That is according to a new study by…
Multiple factors joined forces to devastate the Great Barrier Reef in 2016. A squad of climate-related factors is responsible for the massive Australian coral bleaching…