Earth sciences
- Environmentally friendly farming practices used by nearly one third of world's farms: Less developed countries tend to see the largest improvements in productivity (28 Aug 2018)
- New Antarctic rift data has implications for volcanic evolution (22 Aug 2018)
- Submarine volcanoes add to ocean soundscape: If a submarine volcano erupts and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? (18 Aug 2018)
- Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years before the atmosphere (18 Aug 2018)
- Ocean acidification research makes a strong case for limiting climate change (18 Aug 2018)
- Microplastics: No small problem for filter-feeding ocean giants (18 Aug 2018)
- Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulation system (18 Aug 2018)
- How the Arctic Ocean became saline (18 Aug 2018)
- How does microbial degradation of plastics work in the ocean? (18 Aug 2018)
- Does the European public understand the impacts of climate change on the ocean? (18 Aug 2018)
- Climate Change Is Acidifying Our Lakes and Rivers the Same Way It Does With Oceans (18 Aug 2018)
- 2017 was the warmest year on record for the global ocean (18 Aug 2018)
- Sentinel-5P brings air pollution into focus (16 Aug 2018)
- Sentinel-3B liftoff replay (16 Aug 2018)
- Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes (16 Aug 2018)
- CryoSat reveals retreat of Patagonian glaciers (16 Aug 2018)
- Copernicus Sentinel-5P releases first data (16 Aug 2018)
- Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images (16 Aug 2018)
- Study confirms steady warming of oceans for past 75 years (15 Aug 2018)
- Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed, study shows (15 Aug 2018)
- New ocean observations improve understanding of motion (15 Aug 2018)
- Massive, computer-analyzed geological database reveals chemistry of ancient ocean (15 Aug 2018)
- Extraordinary animation reveals ocean's role in El Ninos (15 Aug 2018)
- Decades of data on world's oceans reveal a troubling oxygen decline (15 Aug 2018)
- Study finds major ocean current is widening as climate warms (14 Aug 2018)
- Pacific Ocean's effect on Arctic warming (14 Aug 2018)
- Ocean acidification accelerates erosion of coral reefs: Researchers found that increased activity by worms and other organisms act on coral skeletons (14 Aug 2018)
- Gone with the wind: Mission conclusion for instrument to monitor ocean winds (14 Aug 2018)
- Corals are becoming more tolerant of rising ocean temperatures: Scientists replicate landmark study to determine changes in coral sea temperature tolerance over time (14 Aug 2018)
- Each tropical tree species specializes in getting the nutrients it needs (06 Aug 2018)
- Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebrates (02 Aug 2018)
- Geoengineering the Great Barrier Reef needs strong rules (02 Aug 2018)
- Animals and fungi enhance the performance of forests (02 Aug 2018)
- Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology (01 Aug 2018)
- Google and The UN Team Up To Study The Effects of Climate Change (27 Jul 2018)
- New magnetic anomaly map helps unveil Antarctica (18 Jul 2018)
- Researchers engineer bacteria to create fertilizer out of thin air (17 Jul 2018)
- Shedding light on the energy-efficiency of photosynthesis (04 Jul 2018)
- Swarm tracks elusive ocean magnetism (01 Jul 2018)
- Newly-hatched salmon use geomagnetic field to learn which way is up (01 Jul 2018)
- Mars valleys traced back to precipitation (29 Jun 2018)
- Climate change to overtake land use as major threat to global biodiversity (21 Jun 2018)
- The Alps are home to more than 3,000 lichens (17 Jun 2018)
- How trees coexist—new findings from biodiversity research (17 Jun 2018)
- Evolution of China's flowering plants shows East-West divide between old, new lineages (17 Jun 2018)
- A theory of physics explains the fragmentation of tropical forests (17 Jun 2018)
- Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate (09 Jun 2018)
- Researchers shine a light on more accurate way to estimate climate change (07 Jun 2018)
- New insight into Earth's crust, mantle and outer core interactions (07 Jun 2018)
- Will rising carbon dioxide levels really boost plant growth? (22 Apr 2018)
- Tiny microenvironments in the ocean hold clues to global nitrogen cycle (22 Apr 2018)
- Our Climate Is Changing Rapidly. It's Time to Talk About Geoengineering. (19 Apr 2018)
- Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago (19 Apr 2018)
- Geoengineering polar glaciers to slow sea-level rise: A researcher suggests a radical solution to prevent catastrophic glacial melting. (19 Apr 2018)
- Climate engineering, once started, would have severe impacts if stopped: Researchers co-author first study on biological impacts of abruptly ending efforts to cool Earth's climate (19 Apr 2018)
- Rise in oxygen levels links to ancient explosion of life, researchers find (30 Nov 2017)
- Jena Experiment: Loss of species destroys ecosystems (30 Nov 2017)
- Sentinel-5P prepared for liftoff (19 Nov 2017)
- 27-Year Study Finds the Amount of Insects Flying in the Air Has Declined 75 Percent (19 Nov 2017)
- Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf, Looking for Life (31 Oct 2017)
- How climate change affects the building blocks for health (27 Oct 2017)
- Study finds increased ocean acidification due to human activities (26 Oct 2017)
- New insights into the impacts of ocean acidification (26 Oct 2017)
- Latest ocean warming review reveals extent of impacts on nature and humans (26 Oct 2017)
- Moment of impact: A journey into the Chicxulub Crater (24 Oct 2017)
- Waterside lighting drastically disrupts wildlife in the surrounding ecosystem (20 Oct 2017)
- Shallow soils promote savannas in South America (20 Oct 2017)
- Why you need to get involved in the geoengineering debate – now (19 Oct 2017)
- Webcam on Mars Express surveys high-altitude clouds (17 Oct 2017)
- Sentinel-5P liftoff (13 Oct 2017)
- Satellites map photosynthesis at high resolution: Precise measurement of the solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence enables scientists to quantify gross primary production (13 Oct 2017)
- Evolution: The beneficiaries of mass extinction (11 Oct 2017)
- New gravity map suggests Mars has a porous crust (08 Oct 2017)
- Geophysicists develop high-res map of Earth's magnetic field (08 Oct 2017)
- Curiosity captures gravity wave shaped clouds on Mars (08 Oct 2017)
- The science of carbon dioxide and climate (06 Oct 2017)
- 4 billion years: World's oldest fossils unearthed (06 Oct 2017)
- Geologist uncovers 2.5 billion-year-old fossils of bacteria that predate the formation of oxygen (05 Oct 2017)
- Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen? (05 Oct 2017)
- Colourful dunes on wind-swept Mars (05 Oct 2017)
- Researchers create first global map of water in moon's soil (24 Sep 2017)
- Unravelling Earth’s magnetic field (23 Sep 2017)
- Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg (23 Sep 2017)
- Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef (23 Sep 2017)
- Quantifying the effects of climate change (23 Sep 2017)
- First detection of boron on the surface of Mars (23 Sep 2017)
- Magnetic oceans and electric Earth (22 Sep 2017)
- A record of ancient tectonic stress on Mars (22 Sep 2017)
- Urbanization costs five billion years of evolutionary history (11 Sep 2017)
- Strong interaction between herbivores and plants (10 Sep 2017)
- New species evolve faster as mountains form (10 Sep 2017)
- Geoengineering is an essential bridge to true sustainability (31 Aug 2017)
- Cool the Planet? Geoengineering Is Easier Said Than Done (31 Aug 2017)
- Study provides strongest evidence oxygen levels were key to early animal evolution (19 Mar 2017)
- World's food and energy systems key to tackling global biodiversity decline (17 Mar 2017)
- Temperature drives biodiversity (17 Mar 2017)
- Impact of climate change on microbial biodiversity (17 Mar 2017)
- Geoengineering Earth's Atmosphere: How It Could Affect Astronomy (17 Mar 2017)
- Fossilized rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars (30 Aug 2016)
- Researchers find most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped about 3.5 billion years ago (24 Aug 2016)
- Icelandic volcano's toxic gas is triple that of Europe's industry (01 Aug 2016)
- NASA's PACE mission will uncover new information about health of our oceans (21 Jul 2016)
- Forest-mapping instrument for space station passes major milestone (02 Jul 2016)
- NASA's GRACE satellites evaluate drought in southeast Brazil (27 Jun 2016)
- CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots (25 Jun 2016)
- Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision (24 Jun 2016)
- Southern Tibetan Plateau (21 Jun 2016)
- What Are Algae? (12 Jun 2016)
- How El Niño impacts global temperatures (12 Jun 2016)
- Cenozoic era: Facts about climate, animals & plants (12 Jun 2016)
- NASA studies details of a greening Arctic (03 Jun 2016)
- Self-healing landscape: Landslides after earthquakes (31 May 2016)
- What is the Earth's average temperature? (27 May 2016)
- Chile's salt flat (27 May 2016)
- Rub al Khali (21 May 2016)
- Megacity: Beijing Quadrupled in Size in 10 Years (17 May 2016)
- The mathematics of weather prediction (14 May 2016)
- Antarctic Peninsula ice flow (12 May 2016)
- Extreme makeover: Humankind's unprecedented transformation of Earth (10 May 2016)
- The science behind the smell of the sea (video) (09 May 2016)
- Study suggests active volcanism on Venus (09 May 2016)
- International spacecraft carrying NASA's Aquarius instrument ends operations (08 May 2016)
- Global freshwater consumption crossing its planetary boundary (08 May 2016)
- Earth's core contains 90 percent of Earth's sulfur, new research shows (08 May 2016)
- A third of the world's biggest groundwater basins are in distress (08 May 2016)
- Researchers discover new fundamental property of rocks (07 May 2016)
- Paleo study shows how elevation may affect evolution (07 May 2016)
- How atmospheric rivers form (07 May 2016)
- What is lunar regolith? (04 May 2016)
- Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide makes trees use water more efficiently (30 Apr 2016)
- Widespread loss of ocean oxygen to become noticeable in 2030s (29 Apr 2016)
- Amazon rainforest responds quickly to extreme climate events (29 Apr 2016)
- Magnetic vortices record history of Earth's magnetic field – Physics World (26 Apr 2016)
- CO2 fertilization greening the earth (26 Apr 2016)
- Important study of how climate affects biodiversity (23 Apr 2016)
- More evidence for groundwater on Mars (19 Apr 2016)
- Study shows cloud patterns reveal species habitat (16 Apr 2016)
- Earliest known fossil of the genus Homo dates to 2.8 to 2.75 million years ago (16 Apr 2016)
- What's beneath Hawaii's most active volcano? (15 Apr 2016)
- Volcanologists discover how bubbles accumulate in magma (14 Apr 2016)
- What Is the Greenhouse Effect? (13 Apr 2016)
- Plants survive better through mass extinctions than animals (13 Apr 2016)
- California needs 11 trillion gallons of water: NASA (12 Apr 2016)
- When life returned after a volcanic mass extinction (11 Apr 2016)
- Study: Farmers and scientists divided over climate change (11 Apr 2016)
- Six to 10 million years ago: Ice-free summers at the North Pole (11 Apr 2016)
- Large variations in precipitation over the past millennium (11 Apr 2016)
- Can corals keep up with ocean acidification? (11 Apr 2016)
- 1200 years of water balance data challenge climate models (11 Apr 2016)
- What are aerosols? (05 Apr 2016)
- The ocean below: Scientific plan measures ocean’s carbon cycle, predicts its future conditions (05 Apr 2016)
- Study charts changes in island biodiversity as oceans rose over past 20,000 years (05 Apr 2016)
- Mile-high Mars mounds built by wind and climate change (05 Apr 2016)
- Acidic oceans: Action plan to combat changes to seawater chemistry: Global carbon dioxide emissions are acidifying waters of the North American West Coast at an accelerating rate; severe ecological co (05 Apr 2016)
- The formation and development of desert dunes on Titan (29 Mar 2016)
- Scientists part the clouds on how droplets form: Researchers find new mechanism to explain the birth of cloud droplets, could influence climate models (25 Mar 2016)
- A new picture of the last ice age (24 Mar 2016)
- Variability of major oceanic currents driven by climate change (23 Mar 2016)
- Biodiversity brings disease resistance: Novel study (22 Mar 2016)
- Ocean circulation explains why the Arctic affected by global warming more than the Antarctic (16 Mar 2016)
- Climate variations analyzed five million years back in time (16 Mar 2016)
- Tracing deep ocean currents (15 Mar 2016)
- Sentinel-3A prepares for liftoff (15 Mar 2016)
- Sentinel-3A liftoff (15 Mar 2016)
- Ocean oases: How islands support more sea-life (15 Mar 2016)
- How climate change will affect western groundwater (15 Mar 2016)
- World Wetlands Day (05 Feb 2016)
- Pharmaceutical residues increasingly disrupt aquatic life: A hidden global change (05 Feb 2016)
- Forest losses increase local temperatures (05 Feb 2016)
- For the first time scientists map elevation changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic glaciers (05 Feb 2016)
- US Forest Service releases findings on the effects of drought for forests and rangelands (02 Feb 2016)
- Topography shapes mountain biodiversity (02 Feb 2016)
- Moon's tidal forces affect amount of rainfall on Earth (02 Feb 2016)
- Increase in volcanic eruptions at the end of the ice age caused by melting ice caps and erosion (02 Feb 2016)
- Diversity of nature formulated (02 Feb 2016)
- Unique high-resolution map on bat diversity in Africa (29 Jan 2016)
- Cretaceous period: Animals, plants and extinction event (29 Jan 2016)
- Climate change: Ocean warming underestimated (29 Jan 2016)
- Evolution of marine crocodilians constrained by ocean temperatures (01 Jan 2016)
- Timelapse from space reveals glacier in motion (22 Dec 2015)
- Scientists paint a detailed picture of the chemical structure of oceans 520 million years ago (22 Dec 2015)
- Rivers, lakes impact ability of forests to store carbon (22 Dec 2015)
- Eastern South African hydroclimate over the past 270,000 years (22 Dec 2015)
- Revealed—the single event that made complex life possible in our oceans (20 Dec 2015)
- Phytoplankton like it hot: Warming boosts biodiversity and photosynthesis in phytoplankton: Warmer temperatures increase biodiversity and photosynthesis in phytoplankton, researchers have found (18 Dec 2015)
- New research shows Earth's tilt influences climate change (18 Dec 2015)
- Ice matters (18 Dec 2015)
- Climate change: How bad can it get? (18 Dec 2015)
- New research shows Earth's core contains 90 percent of Earth's sulfur (11 Dec 2015)
- Goodbye to rainy days for US, Japan's first rain radar in space (04 Dec 2015)
- Earth not due for a geomagnetic flip in the near future, researchers show (24 Nov 2015)
- What is global warming? (23 Nov 2015)
- New satellite to measure plant health (23 Nov 2015)
- Destination: Venus (23 Nov 2015)
- NASA finds new way to track ocean currents from space (04 Nov 2015)
- Water scarcity and climate change through 2095 (29 Oct 2015)
- New analysis links tree height to climate (29 Oct 2015)
- Nordic Seas cooled 500,000 years before global oceans (28 Oct 2015)
- Humans leaving a permanent mark on deep Earth (28 Oct 2015)
- Ocean heat content reveals secrets of fish migration behaviors: Study uses hurricane forecasting tool to show fishes affinity for ocean fronts and eddies (22 Oct 2015)
- Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation and climate (22 Oct 2015)
- Scientists track speed of powerful internal ocean waves: New technique to measure speed of waves below ocean surface (20 Oct 2015)
- New research maps areas most vulnerable to ocean acidification (20 Oct 2015)
- More rain leads to fewer trees in the African savanna (20 Oct 2015)
- Climate models used to explain formation of Mars valley networks (14 Oct 2015)
- Core Finding: Earth's Frozen Center Formed a Billion Years Ago (08 Oct 2015)
- Ancient rocks record first evidence for photosynthesis that made oxygen (08 Oct 2015)
- ASU, USGS project yields sharpest map of Mars' surface properties (03 Oct 2015)
- Large trees -- key climate influencers -- die first in drought: First systematic review of patterns, 38 worldwide forests studied (30 Sep 2015)
- Cold snap: Climate cooling and sea-level changes caused crocodilian retreat: Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodilian species over millions o (28 Sep 2015)
- A Story of Climate Change Told In 15 Graphs (28 Sep 2015)
- Meteorite that doomed dinosaurs remade forests (14 Sep 2015)
- Why big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics (10 Sep 2015)
- Study: Photosynthesis has unique isotopic signature (10 Sep 2015)
- Massive amounts of Saharan dust fertilize the Amazon rainforest (10 Sep 2015)
- Epoch-defining study pinpoints when humans came to dominate planet Earth (10 Sep 2015)
- 17-million-year-old whale fossil provides first exact date for East Africa's puzzling uplift (10 Sep 2015)
- Latest supercomputers enable high-resolution climate models, truer simulation of extreme weather (08 Sep 2015)
- 3D map of Earth’s core shows how volcanoes are formed (08 Sep 2015)
- Volcanic bacteria take minimalist approach to survival (07 Sep 2015)
- Special issue: Forest health (07 Sep 2015)
- Quantifying the impact of volcanic eruptions on climate (07 Sep 2015)
- First measurements taken of South Africa's Iron Age magnetic field history (07 Sep 2015)
- Tiny plant fossils offer window into Earth's landscape millions of years ago (05 Sep 2015)
- New planetary dashboard shows 'Great Acceleration' in human activity since 1950 (05 Sep 2015)
- How many trees are in the world? 3 trillion, apparently (04 Sep 2015)
- Asteroid attacks significantly altered ancient Earth (04 Sep 2015)
- The effect of the winds of Mars (03 Sep 2015)
- Lifetime of gravity measurements heralds new beginning (03 Sep 2015)
- Land cover 2010 (03 Sep 2015)
- Hot water activity on icy moon’s seafloor (03 Sep 2015)
- Hot lava flows discovered on Venus (03 Sep 2015)
- GOCE helps tap into sustainable energy resources (03 Sep 2015)
- Fogo volcano on Sentinel’s radar (03 Sep 2015)
- Five years of soil moisture, ocean salinity and beyond (03 Sep 2015)
- Fast access to CryoSat’s Arctic ice measurements now available (03 Sep 2015)
- Europe secures new generation of weather satellites (03 Sep 2015)
- CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep (03 Sep 2015)
- CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic (03 Sep 2015)
- Crossing the boundary from high to low on Mars (03 Sep 2015)
- Evidence of ancient life discovered in mantle rocks deep below the seafloor (02 Sep 2015)
- Biodiversity belowground is just as important as aboveground (02 Sep 2015)
- If humans never existed, Europe would be one giant zoo (26 Aug 2015)
- New study finds equatorial regions prone to disruptive space weather (25 Aug 2015)
- 7 maps show the dramatic effects of rising sea levels (25 Aug 2015)
- 1,800 years of global ocean cooling halted by global warming: Comprehensive analysis of ocean surface temperature data shows a cooling trend preceding the Industrial Revolution (25 Aug 2015)
- Scientists track monster waves below the ocean surface (23 Jul 2015)
- India drift (21 Jul 2015)
- An improved age for Earth's latest magnetic field reversal using radiometric dating (21 Jul 2015)
- Global change: Trees continue to grow at a faster rate (20 Jul 2015)
- How much magma is hiding beneath our feet? (17 Jul 2015)
- Evolution of marine crocodilians constrained by ocean temperatures (17 Jul 2015)
- Climate change and the soil (17 Jul 2015)
- Forces of martian nature (15 Jul 2015)
- Three-year ocean voyage discovered thousands of new, unfamiliar viruses (12 Jul 2015)
- Tara Oceans expedition yields treasure trove of plankton data (12 Jul 2015)
- Researchers discover deepest high-temperature hydrothermal vents in Pacific Ocean (12 Jul 2015)
- Planktonic world: First scientific results from the Tara Oceans expedition (12 Jul 2015)
- MBARI researchers discover deepest high-temperature hydrothermal vents in Pacific Ocean (12 Jul 2015)
- Research links two millennia of cyclones, floods, El Nino (09 Jul 2015)
- Frequency of tornadoes, hail linked to El Nino, La Nina (09 Jul 2015)
- El Nino will be 'substantial' warn Australian scientists (09 Jul 2015)
- Deciphering clues to prehistoric climate changes locked in cave deposits (09 Jul 2015)
- Same forces as today caused climate changes 1.4 billion years ago (05 Jul 2015)
- Making organic molecules in hydrothermal vents in the absence of life (05 Jul 2015)
- What set the Earth's plates in motion? (04 Jul 2015)
- This week from AGU: Sea-level spikes, volcanic risk, volcanos cause drought (04 Jul 2015)
- Scientists caution against exploitation of deep ocean (04 Jul 2015)
- New study shows the importance of jellyfish falls to deep-sea ecosystem (04 Jul 2015)
- Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Nino cycles (04 Jul 2015)
- 800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems (04 Jul 2015)
- NASA soil moisture mission begins science operations (20 May 2015)
- Bugs and slugs ideal houseguests for seagrass health (20 May 2015)
- How do you measure a sea's level, anyway? (19 May 2015)
- Study reveals how rivers regulate global carbon cycle (14 May 2015)
- Hidden Waves Beneath the World's Oceans Mapped to Reveal Heat and Nutrient Cycling (11 May 2015)
- Researchers uncover evidence of people predating Amazonian rainforest (18 Aug 2014)
- NASA's Aquarius instrument returns global maps of soil moisture (18 Aug 2014)
- NASA's Aquarius returns global maps of soil moisture (13 Jul 2014)
- Study reveals strong links between Antarctic climate, food web (11 Jul 2014)
- New research finds ocean's most abundant organisms have clear daily cycles (11 Jul 2014)
- New study: Ancient Arctic sharks tolerated brackish water 50 million years ago (30 Jun 2014)
- Animals built reefs 550 million years ago, fossil study finds (29 Jun 2014)
- Ancient ocean currents may have changed pacing and intensity of ice ages (29 Jun 2014)
- Study grapples with ocean climate stress challenge (24 Jun 2014)
- New understanding of ocean passageway could aid climate change forecasts (24 Jun 2014)
- Hottest lava eruption linked to growth of first continents (24 Jun 2014)
- Understanding the ocean's role in Greenland glacier melt (23 Jun 2014)
- Satellite Data Gives Scientists New Look at Underground Water Sources (22 Jun 2014)