With increasing water temperatures comes an increasing likelihood of potentially pathogenic bacteria appearing in the North and Baltic Seas. AWI scientists have now proven that a group of such bacteria known as vibrios can survive on microplastic particles. In...
On July 22, NASA/JAXA's GPM found extremely heavy rain (red) falling at a rate of over 224 mm (8.8 inches) per hour and cloud top heights over 14 km (8.7 miles) high in storms south of Georgette's center. Credit:...
A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quirks in how global temperatures were recorded. The study explains why...
The Long Valley Caldera in eastern California was created by a super-eruption 760,000 years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL Super-eruptions – volcanic events large enough to devastate the entire planet – give only about a year’s warning before they blow. That is the...
A sub-alpine forest in Colorado. Forests in the southwestern US are expected to be among the hardest-hit, according to the projections resulting from the study.Credit: Sydne Record Forests take up 25 -- 30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide...
In the past 20 years, the Sahel has become greener because the West African monsoon brings more rain in the sub-Saharan region. A key reason for this is the strong Mediterranean warming as climate researchers from Hamburg have discovered....
Deposits of serpentinized rock such as this could be a previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas, a new Duke study finds. Credit: NOAA Ocean Explorer Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large...
Analysis of rocks unearthed in Oman that were formed in an ancient ocean around the time of Earth's greatest mass extinction have helped explain why life on Earth took so long to recover.Credit: D. Astratti Scientists have shed light on...
The retreating calving front of the Bloomstandbreen glacier on Svalbard (Spitsbergen).Credit: © Alfred-Wegener-Institut/René Bürgi Today, a negative correlation is observed in the amount of rainfall in north-western Africa and north-western Europe. If a humid winter climate prevails in north-western Europe,...
A slab of rock from a study site in Nevada harbors many specimens of Metabolograptus extraordinarius, a shallow-water graptolite species, which together with some close relatives, replaced all the formerly dominant species following the end-Ordovician mass extinction. Credit: Charles...
Schematic summary of research findings showing the sequence of slip behavior. Credit: UC Riverside Preparation and good timing enabled Gareth Funning and a team of researchers to collect a unique data set following the 2014 South Napa earthquake that showed...