earth science
Why would the Earth suddenly start vomiting forth huge quantities of mud?
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
Hawaii is the most isolated volcanic hot spot on Earth, far away from any plate boundary.
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth’s magnetic field.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There’s also a connection to James Bond.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
One possible vision of the distant future.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.
Living at a higher elevation is a double-edged sword.
Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.
The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.
When Cameroon’s Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.
“When you see me, weep.” When rivers dry up in Central Europe, “hunger stones” with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.
