Five million years of climate change preserved in one place
An 80-meter-thick sedimentary succession at Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan, recorded interactions between land, atmosphere and oceanCredit: Charlotte Prud'homme, MPI for Chemistry ...
Tag: Earth Science
Is Earth’s core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet’s interior
Model of how Earth's inner core froze into solid iron implies it may be only 500 million years oldCredit: Graphic ...
UN urges intense restoration of nature to address climate and biodiversity crises
Launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UN calls on countries to meet commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of ...
Current global environmental law and policy are failing, experts say
In a landmark special issue of Environmental Policy and Law, noted scholars lay out their vision for a complete overhaul ...
Less aviation during the global lockdown had a positive impact on the climate
Scientific study by scientists at Leipzig University, Imperial College London and the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace in ParisCredit: Katarina Werneburg They ...
Researchers explore ways to detect ‘deep fakes’ in geography
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Turning the tables — how table corals are regenerating reefs
Table corals are regenerating reefsCredit: Australian Institute of Marine Science Table corals have been dubbed as "extraordinary ecosystem engineers" - ...
Californian smoke drifted as far as Europe in 2020 and caused heavy clouding of sun
ESA's Aeolus wind satellite also provides valuable data on aerosol in the atmosphereCredit: Holger Baars, TROPOS Leipzig. The smoke from ...
Trust the machine — it knows what it is doing
New theoretical insights provide a physically sound understanding of machine learning-based simplified climate modelsCredit: TiPES/HP Machine learning, when used in ...
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
Credit: Prof. Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our ...
Using fossil plant molecules to track down the Green Sahara
New publication: Researchers explain how vegetation was possible in the desertCredit: Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier The Sahara has ...
Less is more? New take on machine learning helps us “scale up” phase transitions
Features of large systems yielded from tiny simulations with super-resolution techniquesCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo ...
Climate change-resistant corals could provide lifeline to battered reefs
Corals that withstood a severe bleaching event and were transplanted to a different reef maintained their resilient qualities, according to ...
Research: Countries in violation of Baltic Sea Convention, polluting marine environment
The countries around the Baltic Sea do not respect their binding international agreement to reduce agricultural pollution of the marine ...
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