Earth Sciences

Climate change is starving the Arctic Ocean of essential nutrients, with the region’s six largest rivers now delivering far less of the type of nitrogen that marine ecosystems need to survive, according to new research […]

As the climate warms and regional drying becomes more frequent, peatlands—some of the planet’s most important carbon sinks—are increasingly under threat. But a study led by an international team including scientists from the University of […]

A UNSW-led global collaborative study has found most shoreline prediction models are effective at forecasting changes to natural, sandy beaches with an accuracy of approximately 10 meters.This post was originally published on this site

Almost a quarter of the glaciers in one of the world’s last pristine ecosystems have melted from climate change, according to new research from Monash University.This post was originally published on this site

If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster that you couldn’t control, you would hope that at the very least, your insurance would cover your losses. However, disaster risk financing systems are struggling to […]

NASA has a long record of monitoring Earth’s sea surface height, information critical not only for tracking how the ocean changes over time but also for hurricane forecasting. These extreme storms can cost the United […]

Forests play a central role in the global carbon cycle as trees store carbon in their trunks, branches, roots and leaves. However, climate change and human activities can change the ability of forests to absorb […]

After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30, 2025, the world watched as the resultant tsunami spread from the epicenter and across the […]

Forests cover about 40% of the EU’s land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent’s man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, also known as carbon […]

Terrestrial plants drove an increase in global photosynthesis between 2003 and 2021, a trend partially offset by a weak decline in photosynthesis—the process of using sunlight to make food—among marine algae, according to a study […]