A fossil site in central Tibet — the youngest known remains of ocean-dwelling creatures in the region — has offered clues to ...
The 2023-24 El Niño brought simultaneous extreme heat and drought to 75% of tropical forests. A new study in Earth’s Future, ...
Penguin poop is fertilizing snow algae blooms along the Antarctic Peninsula, feeding dense green algae patches along the ...
Earth’s poles are rising by 0.5 to 1 millimeters per year, slowly un-squashing our planet’s slightly flattened, ...
Researchers trained a generative AI model to predict how extreme heat waves in Europe could unfold under different global emissions levels. The team found more than 99-in-100 odds that human-caused ...
WASHINGTON — Scientific datasets should be recognized as foundational for research ecosystems and society: long-lived resources that fuel the research ecosystem, support decisions in communities and ...
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 — At only an inch long, the sand hoppers skipping across California’s Isla Vista Beach at dawn don’t exactly look like a force of nature. But a new study reveals that these shrimp-like ...
WASHINGTON — Mercury’s surface is riddled with wrinkles, evidence of a once-larger planet that has shrunk over time. A new study finds that Mercury may have contracted 10% to 30% more than previously ...
WASHINGTON — The Arctic Report Card, the annual peer-reviewed assessment of the state of the warming Arctic, will continue under its independent editorial team — led by researchers at the Cooperative ...
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 ...