This is the Sakurajima volcano with downtown Kagoshima in the foreground.Credit: Sakurajima Volcano Research Centre.
One of Japan's most active volcanoes could be close to a major eruption, threatening the safety of hundreds and thousands of residents of a nearby...
Alexis Licht points to sedimentary rock that contains layers of dust dating back to the Eocene. During that era, atmospheric carbon dioxide was three to four times higher than it is today. Credit: Alexis Licht/University of Washington
The gusting westerly...
Higher demand for nitrogen by trees could mean less nitrogen polluting streams and rivers.Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Andrew Elmore
A warming climate is causing earlier springs and later autumns in eastern forests of the United States, lengthening...
An artist's rendering (not to scale) of a cross-section of the magnetosphere, with the solar wind on the left in yellow and magnetic field lines emanating from the Earth in blue. The five THEMIS probes were well-positioned to directly...
This is a photograph of damage to Helena High School, which collapsed following a major aftershock of the 1935 Helena magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Montana.Credit: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
According to a new study by scientists at Scripps Institution...
A composite image of the Western hemisphere of the Earth. Credit: NASA
The normal flow of air high up in the atmosphere over the equator, known as the quasi-biennial oscillation, was seen to break down earlier this year. These stratospheric...
This infographic shows catastrophic wilderness loss since the 1990s. Credit: Kendall Jones and James Allan
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology show catastrophic declines in wilderness areas around the world over the last 20 years. They demonstrate alarming losses...
China's Grain-for-Green Program, the world's largest reforestation effort, has transformed 69.2 million acres of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest. Yet, the program overwhelming leads to the planting of monoculture forests (the eucalyptus forest, Japanese cedar forest and...
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Ocean warming is affecting humans in direct ways and the impacts are already being felt, including effects on fish stocks and crop yields, more extreme weather events and increased risk from water-borne diseases, according to...
The authors of a new paper believe that raw materials for diamonds and certain unusual oceanic islands come from the same places. From right to left: 1) ocean crust subducts into earth's mantle deep under a continent; 2) the...
The ratio of volatile elements in Earth's mantle suggests that virtually all of the planet's life-giving carbon came from a collision with an embryonic planet approximately 100 million years after Earth formed. Credit: A. Passwaters/Rice University based on original...
