Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same time as the last dinosaurs. Growing up to 12 meters long, mosasaurs looked like a Komodo dragon with ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 8, 2022
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On the East Antarctic Plateau there are huge glaciers under the sea. In order to improve future scenarios related to rising sea levels, scientists need to understand the ways in which these glaciers will respond to rising ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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New Curtin University-led research has found that the world's next supercontinent, Amasia, will most likely form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to 300 million years.
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2022
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An international team of researchers have sounded new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean after discovering acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than ocean waters ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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When ice sheets melt, something strange and highly counterintuitive happens to sea levels.
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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Coral reef islands and their reefs—found across in the Indo-Pacific—naturally grow and shrink due to complex biological and physical processes that have yet to be fully understood. Now, climate change is disrupting them ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2022
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In the past 50 years, the oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the excess heat caused by our carbon dioxide emissions, with one ocean absorbing the vast majority.
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2022
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Scientists have quantified the glacier mass loss on the Kamchatka Peninsula; the accelerated loss in the region since the turn of the millennium is likely to increase in the short term.
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2022
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The Artemis program is NASA's plan to return humans to the Moon as a stepping stone for an eventual voyage to Mars.
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2022
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The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, and in some areas as much as seven times. That's according to new research by a group of Norwegian scientists. This effect, dubbed "Arctic amplification," ...
Environment
Aug 18, 2022
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