The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

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Acid sulfate soils are characterized by their orange hue and their tendency to kill surrounding vegetation and fish. Anders ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called ...

“UCSB is a leading institution in many Earth system science fields, and it was surprising to me that we weren’t already a ...

Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

The images were captured by NASA 's Landsat 9 satellite - an Earth observation satellite that ... That might have been considered science fiction 20 years ago, but scientists now warn that the ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

These findings, the 10 New Insights in Climate Change, are released annually by scientists at Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme. The group aims to provide ...