Earth Sciences

Rising seas are irreversible on human timescales and among the most severe consequences of climate change. Emissions released in the coming decades will determine how much coastlines are reshaped for centuries to come.This post was […]

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images. This method, which is based on numerical simulations and artificial intelligence (AI), transforms the […]

Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth’s land surface but store more than 30% of the world’s soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study […]

The ocean’s smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth’s thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon. However, a new review published in Science by an international team led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology […]

Late at night on 26 September 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida’s big bend. The physical damage was devastating and well-documented, but an additional, unseen potential impact lurked underfoot.This post was originally published on […]

Madagascar’s landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island’s dramatic topography and steered its rivers, setting the stage for the evolution of its extraordinary biodiversity.This post was originally […]

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth could thrive.This […]

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it […]

Located on the island of Sicily, in Italy, Mount Etna is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Documentation of its many eruptions stretches back as far as 2,700 years ago, with the most recent […]

Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, have revealed the presence of a vast buried granite body—almost 100 km across and 7 km thick, about half […]