A carousel of collecting tubes about four feet in length slide below the surface of the Pacific off the Mexican coast, on its way down 300 meters to the world's largest oxygen minimum zone. Credit: Dr. Heather Olins
In ocean...
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed – key information in better predicting how the ice sheet will react to a warming climate.
Greenland’s thick...
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...
New observations recently published in Nature Communications show that warm deep water also reaches the large Filchner ice shelf in the southern Weddell Sea.
Warm ocean water of open ocean origin is continuously flowing into the cavities below the ice...
There is more than twice as much carbon in the planet's soils than there is in its atmosphere, so the loss of even a small proportion of that could have a profound feedback effect on the global climate.
Yet in...
A species of cnidarian in the genus Relicanthus with 8-foot long tentacles attached to a dead sponge stalk on a nodule in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone. These are closely related to anemones.Credit: Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of...
As palm oil production expands from Southeast Asia into tropical regions of the Americas and Africa, vulnerable forests and species on four continents face increased risk of loss, a new Duke University-led study finds.
The largest areas of vulnerable forest...
Current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations already commit the planet to air temperatures over many land regions being eventually warmed by greater than 1.5°C, according to new research published today (27 July 2016) in the journal Scientific Reports.
The...
Damaged and clamped pillar at Lakshi Narayan temple, Chamba, India. Damage likely to have occurred during the 1555 Kashmir earthquake. Credit: Mayank Joshi
Tilted pillars, cracked steps, and sliding stone canopies in a number of 7th-century A.D. temples in northwest...
A new article explains that understanding the seasonality of photosynthesis can help scientists assess whether or not the Amazon is under stress and how it handles and recovers from stress.(Credit: © tauntingpanda/Flickr)
Although the Amazon Jungle may appear to be...
Results show that the transfer efficiency of organic carbon from the surface to the deep ocean ranges from just 5 percent in the subtropics to around 25 percent near the poles.Credit: Thomas Weber/University of Washington
About the same amount of...
