A fossil site in central Tibet — the youngest known remains of ocean-dwelling creatures in the region — has offered clues to ...
Penguin poop is fertilizing snow algae blooms along the Antarctic Peninsula, feeding dense green algae patches along the ...
The 2023-24 El Niño brought simultaneous extreme heat and drought to 75% of tropical forests. A new study in Earth’s Future, ...
WASHINGTON — For the first time, researchers have observed and measured weak electrical discharges, known as coronae, on trees during thunderstorms. A new study describes the near-invisible sparkles ...
Oases gained 85,000 square miles, mostly from artificial expansion projects Oases lost 52,000 square miles from desertification and water scarcity Oases gained a net area of about 33,400 square miles, ...
WASHINGTON — Across its basins and thousands of meters down, the Mediterranean Sea is getting warmer and saltier. Now, a new study finds it is also doing so at a faster and faster pace. The speed-up ...
WASHINGTON — 66 million years ago, the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, and only ...
WASHINGTON — Along the three coasts of the contiguous United States, a silent race unfolds. Fueled by climate change, sea levels rise faster than at any time in recent geologic history. Meanwhile, ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico —The Great Lakes in the Midwest U.S. comprise the largest unfrozen freshwater stores on Earth. But too much of a good thing can create problems. New research using the most ...
Earth’s poles are rising by 0.5 to 1 millimeters per year, slowly un-squashing our planet’s slightly flattened, ...
Tornadoes occur in North America, South America, Southern Africa, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. More tornadoes occur in the United States than anywhere else in the world. Meteorologists can ...
El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a recurring climate pattern across the tropical Pacific Ocean called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. The warm and cool phases shift back ...
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