Research indicates a significant increase in cosmogenic radionuclides during the Laschamps excursion, pointing to reduced geomagnetic protection and potential biosphere upheavals. Earth’s magnetic field cocoons…
There’s a reason airlines won’t let you put your laptop in your checked luggage; the lithium-ion battery poses a serious fire hazard. But why? Lithium…
Improving Projections, Predictions and Protection in the Face of Expected Sea Level Rise A new assessment of flood risk in Venice indicates that the impact…
Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a bulky spacesuit with puffy gloves on, under a time…
When the four-decades-old Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and 2018, respectively, scientists celebrated. These plucky spacecraft had already traveled…
The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) has important implications for plate…
Rewilding—a hands-off approach to restoring and protecting biodiversity—is increasingly employed across the globe to combat the environmental footprint of rapid urbanization and intensive farming. The…
Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names, and classification schemes, can span many generations, preserving information that has helped native communities adapt to natural…
A new study shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern U.S. traveled hundreds of miles…
Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to carry out major decontamination works in the affected…
In a newly published study, researcher Iannis Dandouras details the discovery of plasmaspheric wind, providing the first conclusive proof of the existence this wind first…