In this photo, fires rage in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.Credits: Rini Sulaiman/CIFOR
An especially dry period from July to October in Indonesia, a result of the 2015-16 El Niño, contributed to a severe fire season and significant carbon and pollution...
Hurricane Harvey was an unprecedented rain event that delivered five consistent days of flooding and storms to Texas last August. Now, research from UTSA Assistant Professor Vikram Kapoor in civil and environmental engineering has substantiated that the storm caused...
The raggedness of the ocean floors could be the key to triggering some of the Earth's most powerful earthquakes, scientists from Cardiff University have discovered.
In a new study published today in Nature Geoscience the team, also from Utrecht University,...
Scientists from the University of East Anglia have discovered a unique oil eating bacteria in the deepest part of the Earth's oceans—the Mariana Trench.
Together with researchers from the China and Russia, they undertook the most comprehensive analysis of microbial...
New research has shown that large ecosystems such as rainforests and coral reefs can collapse at a significantly faster rate than previously understood. The findings suggest that ecosystems the size of the Amazon forests could collapse in only 49...
Scientists have tracked a 'boomerang' earthquake in the ocean for the first time, providing clues about how they could cause devastation on land.
Earthquakes occur when rocks suddenly break on a fault—a boundary between two blocks or plates. During large earthquakes, the...
Where is the geographic center of a state, country or a continent?
It's a question fraught with uncertainty. Do you include water in your calculation? What about islands? What happens when the shoreline shifts?
The U.S. Geological Survey alluded to these...
In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in October 2016, ecologist Monica Turner and her team of graduate students visited the park to begin to assess the landscape.
"We saw these...
New research suggests forces pulling on Earth's surface as the planet spins may trigger earthquakes and eruptions at volcanoes.
Seismic activity and bursts of magma near Italy's Mount Etna increased when Earth's rotational axis was furthest from its geographic axis,...
A new submarine volcano was formed off the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean in 2018. This was shown by an oceanographic campaign in May 2019. Now, an international team led by the scientist Simone Cesca from the...
Associate professor BK Song of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science collects water samples for analysis of nitrogen and microbes.
Credit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS.
Those concerned with water quality...
