Last update:
Earth news
California braces for power shutoffs and warm, windy weekend
Firefighters and officials at California's largest utility company braced for hot, dry and windy weather in northern and central areas of the state this weekend that may fan the flames of several major wildfires or ignite ...
Environment
1 hour ago
1
10
Major wind-driven ocean currents are shifting toward the poles
The severe droughts in the USA and Australia are the first sign that the tropics, and their warm temperatures, are apparently expanding in the wake of climate change. But until now, scientists have been unable to conclusively ...
Earth Sciences
20 hours ago
2
718
Study delivers new knowledge about what causes thunderstorms and cloud bursts
Thunderstorms often provoke violent cloud bursts that can result in devastating flooding. But what actually spawns thunderstorms and cloud bursts? This question has spurred a new study by researchers at the University of ...
Earth Sciences
22 hours ago
2
29
Researcher investigates the most lethal volcanic phenomena on earth
Like many who grew up in East Germany, Dr. Gert Lube always yearned to travel and explore different places. Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when he was a first-year geology student at the University of Greifswald, ...
Earth Sciences
22 hours ago
0
106
How many people will migrate due to rising sea levels? Our best guesses aren't good enough
An article in 2011 shocked many by suggesting that up to 187 million people could be forced to leave their homes as a result of two meters of sea level rise by 2100. Almost a decade on, some of the latest estimates suggest ...
Environment
18 hours ago
2
12
New way of analyzing soil organic matter will help predict climate change
A new way of analyzing the chemical composition of soil organic matter will help scientists predict how soils store carbon—and how soil carbon may affect climate in the future, says a Baylor University researcher.
Earth Sciences
20 hours ago
1
109
New study reveals that soil is a significant carbon sequestration driver
As harmful atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to increase, understanding the planet's carbon balance is increasingly important.
Earth Sciences
22 hours ago
0
268
Humans ignite almost every wildfire that threatens homes
Summer and fall are wildfire season across the western U.S. In recent years, wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and exposed tens of millions to harmful smoke.
Environment
22 hours ago
2
10
NASA observations aid efforts to track California's wildfire smoke from space
Wildfires have been burning across the state of California for weeks—some of them becoming larger complexes as different fires merge. One of those was the August Complex Fire, which reportedly began as 37 distinct fires ...
Earth Sciences
16 hours ago
0
27
Reusing tableware can reduce waste from online food deliveries
Lifestyles in China are changing rapidly, and ordering food online is an example. However, those billions of delivery meals produce an enormous amount of plastic waste from packaging, but also from food containers and cutlery; ...
Environment
20 hours ago
0
5
Solution to water shortages: Reuse of sewage for groundwater fed irrigation
Globally, there is an imbalance between water availability and water demand. The main cause of this mismatch is agricultural irrigation, which accounts for about 70% of freshwater withdrawal. At the same time, wastewater ...
Environment
22 hours ago
0
3
We looked at 35 years of rainfall and learned how droughts start in the Murray-Darling Basin
The extreme, recent drought has devastated many communities around the Murray-Darling Basin, but the processes driving drought are still not well understood.
Environment
22 hours ago
0
3
Research links sinking land to regions of high groundwater demand
Excessive pumping from underground aquifers can cause the surrounding land to sink and lead to damage to streets, bridges and other infrastructure, reduced groundwater storage, and contaminated drinking water, according to ...
Environment
22 hours ago
0
13
Future urban development exacerbates coastal exposure in the Mediterranean
Urban extent in low-lying coastal areas is increasing faster than in the hinterland, thus leading to increased exposure to sea-level rise and associated hazards. Societies' risk to future coastal flooding will, therefore, ...
Environment
23 hours ago
0
4
A watershed study for wetland restoration
Where rivers meet oceans, each cycle of the tide moves water in and out of estuaries. The mixing and mingling of fresh and briny water, combined with seasonal weather, creates a unique environment for ecosystems in coastal ...
Environment
Sep 25, 2020
0
8
Marine heatwaves are human-made
Heatwaves in the world's oceans have become over 20 times more frequent due to human influence. This is what researchers from the Oeschger Center for Climate Research at the University of Bern are now able to prove. Marine ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2020
27
243
Coldest Northern Hemisphere temperature officially confirmed
Nearly 30 years after recording a temperature of minus 93.2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 69.6 Celsius) in Greenland, the measurement has been verified by the World Meteorological Organization as the coldest recorded temperature ...
Earth Sciences
16 hours ago
0
8
NASA finds post-tropical storm Beta's clouds blanketing the Southeastern US
NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of Post-Tropical Cyclone Beta as it continued moving slowly through the Tennessee Valley. Clouds associated with the low-pressure area looked like a large white blanket draped ...
Environment
19 hours ago
0
5
NASA finds wind shear displacing Lowell's strongest storms
NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Lowell that revealed the effects of outside winds battering the storm.
Environment
20 hours ago
0
4
Image: Tarawa, Kiribati
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas.
Environment
22 hours ago
0
5
More news
Researcher tackles growing plastic waste
5G wireless may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts
How earthquake swarms arise
Newly identified 'landfalling droughts' originate over ocean
NASA nets Dolphin as an extratropical storm
Other news
The realization of active microscale Marangoni surfers
New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels
Materials scientists learn how to make liquid crystal shape-shift
Bird genes are multitaskers, say scientists
Back to Venus: Upstart company wants to beat NASA in search for life
Diagnostic tool for coronavirus makes significant step forward
New method allows precise gene control by light
A clearer view of what makes glass rigid
Secure nano-carrier delivers medications directly to cells
Wolves have been caring for the pack for at least 1.3 million years
Primate brain size does not predict their intelligence
Climate scientists uncover 30-year-old temperature record
Antarctic ice loss expected to affect future climate change
The surprising organisation of avian brains
Potential drug target for dangerous E. coli infections identified
The male Y chromosome does more than we thought
High-performance single-atom catalysts for high-temperature fuel cells
US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20
Atom billiards with X-rays: A new approach to look inside molecules
3-D camera earns its stripes
