Air pollution monitors were deployed in more than 1,500 locations within the six different metro areas. In addition to air pollution data from state and local air agencies, these MESA Air monitors collected and measured variable levels of PM2.5,...
The Cedars, shown here, is a small, isolated set of springs flowing out of a large patch of red rock from Earth's mantle in Sonoma County, California. The Cedars is one of the few easily-accessible sites of serpentinization on...
Location of the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current front (white contour), with -1 degree Celsius sea surface temperature lines (black contours) on Sept. 22 each year from 2002-2009, plotted against a chart of the depth of the Southern Ocean around...
A new study uses aquatic leaf waxes to study the history of precipitation at this lake in western Greenland.
Credit: Jason Briner
The history of Greenland's snowfall is chronicled in an unlikely place: the remains of aquatic plants that died long...
These kind of corals create fragile and branched colonies, which boost marine biodiversity related to their relation to the life cycle of lots of marine organisms. Credit: Marine Geociences GRC, UB
A scientific team has found in La Fonera...
This is a picture of the Totten Glacier front. Credit: Esmee van Wijk/Australian Antarctic Division
Current rates of climate change could trigger instability in a major Antarctic glacier, ultimately leading to more than 2m of sea-level rise.
This is the conclusion...
This is Danil Vorobiev, doctor of biological sciences and director of biological institute near the lake. Credit: TSU
The oil cleansing method was developed by TSU researchers and it is optimal for lake ecosystems. The experiment proved that the content of...
Dead coral smothered by coal. Credit: Kathryn Berry
Australian researchers have raised fresh concerns that a major shipping disaster could harm the Great Barrier Reef, with new research revealing coal dust in seawater can kill corals and slow down the...
As iron is deposited from air pollution off the coast of East Asia, ocean currents carry the nutrient far and wide.
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
As climatologists closely monitor the impact of human activity on the world's oceans, researchers at...
Foraging red knots in Mauritania are shown. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. van Gils at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea...
This is one of 60 micrometeorites extracted from 2.7 billion year old limestone, from the Pilbara region in Western Australia. These micrometeorites consist of iron oxide minerals that formed when dust particles of meteoritic iron metal were oxidised as...
