Earth Sciences

Materials scientists at the University of California San Diego have performed powerful laser shock experiments on a perovskite mineral to better understand the geophysical processes in Earth’s deep interior and the mechanisms behind earthquakes deep […]

About 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by the vast oceans. When winds blow over the sea surface, they transfer energy to the water, creating waves. Some of these waves, under the force of strong […]

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new method for evaluating urban sustainability, leveraging high-resolution data from the SDGSAT-1 satellite, according to a study […]

A team of geoscientists has identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of Earth’s crust in Japan and neighboring regions. The so-called same-dip double subduction (SDDS) in nearby oceanic trenches has […]

Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that also includes the Gulf Stream, could shut down after the year 2100. This is the conclusion of a new […]

For decades, the Tijuana River has carried millions of gallons of untreated sewage and industrial waste across the U.S.-Mexico border. The river passes through San Diego’s South Bay region before emptying into the ocean, recently […]

Clouds are important for Earth’s energy balance because they interact with radiation in different ways. On one hand, low clouds reflect incoming solar radiation and thus cool Earth through a property known as albedo. On […]

A more thorough way to estimate how much the world’s boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes contribute to current and future harmful methane emissions has been developed in part by University of Alberta researchers.This post was originally […]

Humanity and the environment’s adaptation to climate change is dependent on water, but projecting how water resources will be impacted in the future is difficult.This post was originally published on this site

How Earth’s atmosphere transformed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich over a span of about two billion years has been revealed by an international team of researchers.This post was originally published on this site