MIT Research Reveals Natural Impediment to Long-Term Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
A new study reveals a natural impediment to the long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide, showing that as carbon dioxide works its way underground only a…
A new study reveals a natural impediment to the long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide, showing that as carbon dioxide works its way underground only a…
Geophysicists from Yale University reveal that the combination of crustal plugs with weakening causes abrupt slab detachment in a few million years, which can account…
Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory show that the “warming hiatus” that has occurred over the last 15 years has been caused in part…
New research on a Martian rock reveals a record of the planet’s climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its surface…
A new geological map based on NASA images shows signs of ancient lakes and quakes on Mars. This animation simulates a flyover of a portion…
A new study from MIT shows that the effects of smaller eruptions have been underestimated in climate models, revealing that relatively small volcanic eruptions can…
New research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows that Earth’s water most likely accreted at the same time as the rock, suggesting that Earth received…
Earth’s magnetic field is decreasing 10 times faster than normal, leading some geophysicists to predict a magnetic reversal to occur within a few thousand years….
New data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals evidence of basaltic volcanism on the Moon occurring within the past 100 million years. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance…
The animation, based on measurements from ESA’s GOCE satellite and the NASA–German Grace mission, shows that ice lost from West Antarctica has caused a dip…
New research from the University of Sydney is shedding light on what set the Earth’s massive tectonic plates in motion, suggesting that it was triggered…
New research investigates the mysterious holes discovered by ESA’s Venus Express on the nightside of Venus’s ionosphere, finding evidence that the sun’s magnetic field lines…
In an effort to better understand coronal mass ejections and their potential effects on human technology, a newly published study takes a detailed look a…
A newly published study from geophysicists Rice University and the University of Nevada challenges assumptions about a rigid lithosphere, revealing that the Pacific plate is…
New research reveals large quantities of water bound up in the rock located deep in the Earth’s mantle. Researchers have found evidence of a potential…
New research shows that high-energy particles from large solar storms can penetrate the moon’s polar regions and electrically charge the soil, causing electrostatic breakdown and…
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, scientists measure the deformation of the moon due to Earth’s pull…
New research from Yale University shows that parts of ancient Antarctica were as warm as today’s California coast, and polar regions of the southern Pacific…