A 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled residents and damaged buildings in East Texas in 2012 was triggered by the injection of large volumes of wastewater from oil and gas activities into rocks deep beneath the surface, a new satellite...
The UCI-led study found that soil integrates carbon far slower than thought, meaning the amount it's capable of absorbing from the atmosphere this century is much less than predicted by current Earth system models.Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI
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Sirius Group exposures near Mt. Fleming, Antarctica, circa 1986. The pattern of snow behind rocks shows the prevailing winds across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.Credit: Reed Scherer, Northern Illinois University
Scientists say ocean fossils found in mountains are cause for...
The world's oceans teem with scientific mystery, unknowns that could prove to be tools that will one day protect the planet from global warming.
Today, researchers report they've tripled the known types of viruses living in waters around the globe,...
Kelp forests are a unique habitat that suffers under heat stress.Credit: © usoceangov / Flickr
Did you know that heatwaves not only occur on land, but also in the sea? We all remember the record-breaking European heatwave in summer of...
Samples of the world's oldest precisely dated rock. Credit: University of Alberta
Addressing fundamental unknowns about the earliest history of Earth’s crust, scientists have precisely dated the world’s oldest rock unit at 4.02 billion years old. Driven by the University...
The ice is drilled in Greenland and Antarctica and is transported back home to the laboratory where it is prepared and made ready the measurements. (Credit: Paul Vallelonga, NBI)
New research shows that human pollution of the atmosphere with acid...
NASA's IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This photograph from the flight captures Greenland's Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off of the Denmark Strait in...
UCLA professor Glen MacDonald studies sediment samples, like the one shown here from an unrelated study, looking for clues about prehistoric climate conditions.Credit: John Vande Wege/UCLA
Clues from prehistoric droughts and arid periods in California show that today's increasing greenhouse...
Scientists have now demonstrated that Earth and other planetary objects that formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins -- a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.Credit: Image courtesy...
NASA Earth Observatory chart by Joshua Stevens, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
August 2016 was the warmest August in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists...
