The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

In the coming decades, climate change is likely to lead to a loss of sea ice in and an influx of warmer water to the Arctic Ocean, affecting the ocean’s vertical circulation. Brown et al. recently ...

Imagine driving an electric car past a solar farm that is spread across a Sun-drenched valley below a ridge of wind turbines. Or perhaps imagine changing a thermostat to cool or heat your home, ...

Every MLB baseball is smeared with a bit of special mud harvested from a secret location in New Jersey. Researchers took this “magic mud” into the lab to bring some science to this piece of baseball ...

Evapotranspiration is a scientific measurement representing the combined sum of evaporation from the soil (or water) surface to the atmosphere and transpiration from plants, where liquid water inside ...

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. In 2021, hydropower contributed ...

In carbon storage experiments tied to geothermal power plants in Iceland, 90% of injected carbon dioxide (CO 2) transformed into minerals in just 2 years. Standard carbon storage methods can take ...

The cores of continents or cratons host the planet’s oldest rocks and a rich record of plate tectonic events that can be poorly preserved on active continental margins. A portion of the North American ...

Seismic tomography imaging shows a portion of a “blob” that sits at the base of the mantle below Africa. Slow-wave velocity regions above the blob, including the cusp and branches, could indicate ...

The lava lake at the summit of Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia is one of just two on Earth (the other is at Kīlauea in Hawaii). Credit: Planet Labs Inc. Standing next to a lava lake at the summit of a ...