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 ocean Paleo researcher Charlotte Prud'homme, who ...
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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 old For ...
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 Paris They studied the ...
Researchers explore ways to detect ‘deep fakes’ in geography
Can you trust the map on your smartphone, or the satellite image on your computer screen? So far, yes, but ...
Turning the tables — how table corals are regenerating reefs
Table corals are regenerating reefs Table corals have been dubbed as "extraordinary ecosystem engineers" - with new research showing these ...
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 atmosphere Leipzig. The smoke from the extreme forest ...
Trust the machine — it knows what it is doing
New theoretical insights provide a physically sound understanding of machine learning-based simplified climate models Machine learning, when used in climate ...
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our species in Africa, the exact character of ...
Using fossil plant molecules to track down the Green Sahara
New publication: Researchers explain how vegetation was possible in the desert The Sahara has not always been covered by only ...
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 techniques Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have ...
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 ...
Plastic in Galapagos seawater, beaches and animals
Plastic pollution has been found in seawater, on beaches and inside marine animals at the Galapagos Islands. A new study ...
Seabirds sound alarm: Breeding success corresponds to hemispheric rates of ocean warming
Long-term data show fish-eating species are struggling to raise young in northern hemisphereCredit: Ron LeValley There is heightened public awareness ...
Some forams could thrive with climate change, metabolism study finds
Credit: Image credit: J.M. Bernhard. Woods Hole, Mass. (May 27, 2021) - With the expansion of oxygen-depleted waters in the ...
Deep oceans dissolve the rocky shell of water-ice planets
Credit: S. Speziale/ GFZ What is happening deep beneath the surface of ice planets? Is there liquid water, and if ...
Keeping more ammonium in soil could decrease pollution, boost crops
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing ...
What causes the deep Earth’s most mysterious earthquakes?
The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team ...
