A UC Berkeley-led analysis of tree mortality after two recent Amazonian droughts shows that “hot drought” conditions, which are becoming more frequent, are leading to tree dieoffs and reducing the ...
Earth is not warming in a neat, even gradient. While the planet as a whole continues to heat up, one vast swath of the globe ...
Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for ...
An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior ...
New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...
UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.
Heat above 30°C reduces early learning milestones and slows child development in children. Poor families experience the ...
Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...
Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...
New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...
Official new Climate Normals reveal milder winters in the United States, with fewer freezing nights and a country that is ...