Ocean temperatures are off the charts, and El Niño is only partly to blame
In a world of worsening climate extremes, a single red line has caught many people's attention.
In a world of worsening climate extremes, a single red line has caught many people's attention.
Earth Sciences
Jun 13, 2023
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While conducting a study of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uncovered a previously unseen way in which the ice and ocean interact. ...
Earth Sciences
May 8, 2023
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One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an ice-free corridor that briefly opened between ice sheets ...
Archaeology
Dec 16, 2023
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While Atlantis—a fabled continent said to have been swallowed by the sea—continues to elude its seekers, another long-lost and less famous land mass has been discovered at the bottom of the ocean.
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2023
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Antarctica sets the stage for the world's greatest waterfall. The action takes place beneath the surface of the ocean. Here, trillions of tons of cold, dense, oxygen-rich water cascade off the continental shelf and sink to ...
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2023
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Captured on 7 May 2024, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of New Zealand's North Island.
Planetary Sciences
May 17, 2024
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The 2013-2016 marine heat wave known as "The Blob" warmed a vast expanse of surface waters across the northeastern Pacific, disrupting West Coast marine ecosystems, depressing salmon returns, and damaging commercial fisheries. ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 17, 2023
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A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth sheds new light on the formation of the East Coast of the United States—a "passive margin," in geologic terms—during the breakup of the supercontinent ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2023
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MIT geologists have found that a clay mineral on the seafloor, called smectite, has a surprisingly powerful ability to sequester carbon over millions of years.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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In 2023, the world's oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to "boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools," according to an annual report published Thursday.
Environment
Jan 14, 2024
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