Earth Sciences

This summer, much of North China has endured widespread temperatures above 35°C. Even typically cooler, high-latitude summer retreats like Harbin in Northeast China—usually a refuge from the heat—saw temperatures soar past 35°C in late June […]

Critical mineral lithium—the lightest of all metals—had long eluded geologists by slipping through the cracks of traditional analysis.This post was originally published on this site

Changes in water levels beneath Earth’s surface caused by glacier snowmelt and rainfall could be responsible for triggering small but frequent earthquakes in New Zealand’s central Southern Alps, according to new research led by The […]

Experts are calling for a global effort to identify “positive tipping points” to accelerate the green transition—and have devised a method to find them.This post was originally published on this site

As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model from JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself.This post was originally published on this […]

Analysis of ocean sediments has surfaced geochemical clues in line with the possibility that an encounter with a disintegrating comet 12,800 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere triggered rapid cooling of Earth’s air and ocean. […]

Researchers are calling for a more reliable approach to understanding water-related hazards by explicitly accounting for uncertainty in their predictions, arguing this could improve how communities prepare for the risk of floods, droughts, and river-related […]

When an enormous 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the impact reached far beyond its epicenter. In the passing hours, tsunami alerts were issued by several nations with coastlines along the Pacific Ocean’s […]

A recent study in Nature Geoscience offers important new insights into the hidden role of ancient groundwater beneath the ocean floor—and how it may have interacted with ice sheets and rising sea levels during past […]

For a wide variety of earthquake scenarios in Alaska, an earthquake early warning (EEW) system could provide at least 10 seconds of warning time for hazardous shaking, according to a new report.This post was originally […]