The Black Sea.Credit: NASA
With rivers providing an abundant supply of fresh water, the upper layers of the Black Sea are less dense than its saltier lower layers. A permanent boundary between the two prevents any vertical mixing. The oxygen,...
Associate Professor Vickie Bennett (left), Professor Allen Nutman (centre), and Dr Clark Friend (right), examining the rocks in Greenland.Credit: Courtesy of Yuri Amelin
In an extraordinary find, a team of Australian researchers have uncovered the world's oldest fossils in a...
So-called 'convective' clouds are formed when there is a significant warming of the surface and a sufficient amount of moisture.Credit: J. O. Haerter
Violent thunderstorms can often cause torrential rain, which pose a threat for both humans and the infrastructure....
New research shows that 13,000 years of repeated human occupation by British Columbia's coastal First Nations has enhanced temperate rainforest productivity. Credit: Will McInnes/Hakai Institute
Human occupation is usually associated with deteriorated landscapes, but new research shows that 13,000...
The Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG), which includes University of Leicester geologists, will provide its summary of evidence and its provisional recommendations on a potential new geological time interval at the 35th International Geological Congress in South Africa...
MIT-WHOI Joint Program Student Max Kaplan scuba diving over a coral reef in the Virgin Islands back.Credit: T. Aran Mooney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will help researchers understand the ways...
A team of scientists from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has linked large solar eruptions to changes in Earth's cloud...
Slash-and-burn: The human footprint is heaviest in the world's biologically-richest areas, such as tropical rainforests. Here, farmers are burning the Amazon rainforest for charcoal.Credit: William Laurance
A James Cook University scientist says a new map of the ecological footprint of...
The 160-square-foot stream table was designed to progressively “grow” a mechanically driven fold across which small “rivers” flowed, causing erosion.Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Santa Barbara
Sometimes the answers to our most persistent questions are found in...
After an extreme global warming 252 million years ago, a severe mass extinction of life took place on Earth. A new study in the Arctic has been seeking clues as to what limited return of life to world´s oceans...
The global impact of human activities on the natural environment is extensive, but those impacts are expanding at a slower rate than the rate of economic and population growth.Credit: Oscar Venter
The global impact of human activities on the natural...
