If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

How much more will the Earth warm? How will Earth respond? Answering these questions is perhaps the most significant scientific challenge of our time. Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in ...

For example, bubbles of air in glacial ice trap tiny samples of Earth’s atmosphere, giving scientists a history of greenhouse gases that stretches back more than 800,000 years. The chemical make-up of ...

Geoscientists conducted ... Earth Scientists Study Sikkim Flood in India to Help Others Prepare for Similar Disasters Jan. 30, 2025 — Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced ...

Feb. 5, 2025 — Soil incubation experiments revealed a comprehensive increase in CO2 release by drying-rewetting cycles (DWCs) among Japanese forests and pastureland soils, suggesting a ...

China currently dominates global rare earth production, accounting for over 69% in 2023. Credit: Ivan Marc via Shutterstock. The global rare earths industry is a complex landscape dominated by China, ...

Earth just experienced its warmest January on ... start to the year in the organization's dataset going back to 1940. Global surface air temperature anomalies in 2023 compared to the 1991-2020 ...

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Over the next few years, climate researchers from Germany aim to achieve a breakthrough in the radiative properties of clouds by describing the corresponding processes not just one-dimensionally, as ...

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