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Earth Was Stressed before Dinosaur Extinction

December 13, 2019

Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact

Warmer Temperatures Will Increase Arsenic Levels in Rice, Study Shows

December 6, 2019

Researchers at the University of Washington have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change...

Solving the Mystery of Carbon on Ocean Floor

December 6, 2019

The challenge with studying deep marine carbon is that it is a mixture of fresh material delivered from the surface and an ag...

Nine Climate Tipping Points Now 'Active,' Warn Scientists

November 29, 2019

This "cascade" of changes sparked by global warming could threaten the existence of human civilizations

Underwater Telecom Cables Make Superb Seismic Network

November 29, 2019

Test under Monterey Bay shows undersea fiber-optic cables can detect quakes, fault systems

First Measures of Earth's Ionosphere Found with the Largest Atmospheric Radar in the Antarctic

November 28, 2019

Researchers have used radar in Antarctica to make the first measurements from the Antarctic region

Coated Seeds May Enable Agriculture on Marginal Lands

November 26, 2019

A specialized silk covering could protect seeds from salinity while also providing fertilizer-generating microbes

Scientists Find a Place on Earth Where There Is No Life

November 25, 2019

European researchers have confirmed the absence of microbial life in hot, saline, hyperacid ponds in the Dallol geothermal fi...

Increase in Cannabis Cultivation or Residential Development Could Impact Water Resources

November 25, 2019

In a recent paper, researchers note that the combination of cannabis cultivation and residential use may cause significa...

Boosting Wind Farmers, Global Winds Reverse Decades of Slowing and Pick up Speed

November 19, 2019

Focusing on regions of North America, Europe, and Asia where wind power is on the rise, the researchers analyzed wind speed r...

Amazon Deforestation and Number of Fires Show Summer of 2019 Not a 'Normal' Year

November 18, 2019

The fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not 'normal' and large increases in deforestation could exp...

This Is What the Monsoon Might Look like in a Warmer World

November 13, 2019

Geoscientists can reconstruct the climate of the past by analyzing dripstones—and they can also draw up prognoses for t...

Hurricanes Have Become Bigger and More Destructive for the US

November 12, 2019

A Niels Bohr Institute study shows that hurricanes have become more destructive since 1900, and the worst of them a...

Declaration of a Climate Emergency and Next Steps for Action

November 8, 2019

Writing in BioScience, members of a worldwide coalition of scientists argue that too little action has been taken on cli...

Rice Yields Plummet and Arsenic Rises in Future Climate-Soil Scenarios

November 1, 2019

While the dramatic loss in production is a major cause for concern, the scientists are hopeful that this research will help p...

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