Scientists Use Whale Songs To Reveal Hidden Features Of The Sea Floor
We know very little about the ocean floor, but now scientists are getting help to learn something about the most unexpected aspect – the fin…
Environment
After Years Of Rising, Emissions Of An Ozone-Depleting Chemical Have Finally Started To Fall
The world is facing enough potential sources of going public, so it is comforting to know that a threat is back in its box for…
Fossil Fuel Emissions Killed Over 8 Million People In 2018
A new study has found that 18 percent of all deaths in the world in 2018 caused by exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel…
Glacial Lake Flooding Directly Linked To Climate Change for the First Time
Floods from melting alpine glaciers appear to be a more obvious threat from global warming. Instead, they have become the most controversial, even among scientists…
“Giant” Magnetic Bacterial Fossils Fill In Gaps in the Earth’s Climate History
Magnetic bacteria make compasses out of microscopic chains of oriental iron oxide so that they can better feed the Earth’s magnetic field. They have been…
Groundwater Depletion (Causes, Effects, Solution)
The unavoidable and natural result of extracting water from an aquifer is groundwater depletion. It is a significant environmental threat; water makes up the bulk…
The Amazon Rainforest Is About To Cross an Irreversible Threshold That Will Turn It into A Savanna, Top Scientists Say
Scientists are urging the government, especially in Brazil, to implement policies that deforest the Amazon and begin recovering rainfall. Because people are cutting down forests…
Multiple Previously Unknown Viruses Discovered In 15,000-Year-Old Ice
Drilling hundreds of meters down into hundreds of years old ice in remote areas of the world, it just sounds like the beginning of a…
Scientist Who Blew Whistle on Covid-19 Numbers Raided By Police
Rebecca Jones, a scientist who developed a data visualization tool to help track the spread of COVID-19, fired a police branding gun at her home.…
Ozone Recovery Is Restoring the Antarctic’s Wind Systems
The 1987 Montreal Protocol stands as a demonstration that sometimes when life is threatened, the world can come together and work together to save itself.…
Watch a Spectacular Lava “Dome Fountain” Flow in Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Crater
Emerging from the active lava lake of the Halema’uma’u Crater in Callaway, the Geological Survey of the United States (USGS) enters fresh lava from a…
Planetary boundaries
The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate. It is a concept involving…
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