Lighthouse in the Gobi Desert
A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE investigates the weight of significant fossil sites on our knowledge of evolutionary links between fossil groups,…
Geography
Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics is a scientific hypothesis that describes the large-scale movement of the Earth’s lithosphere. According to scientific theory, the Earth’s lithosphere is made up…
Modeling the Larger impacts of Wildfires in Siberia
As wildfires in Siberia become more common, global climate modeling predicts severe implications on climate, air quality, health, and the economy in East Asia and…
The Enigma of the Deep Earth’s Electrical System is Solved
To “breathe” in an oxygen-free environment, bacteria in the ground beneath our feet rely on a single family of proteins to transfer excess electrons produced…
Key Features and Characteristics of the Continental Crust
The continental crust is the layer of Earth’s crust that makes up the continents. The geological continents and the shallow seafloor at their shores, known…
Massive Ice Loss from the Greenland Glacier
Ground-based measuring instruments and aircraft radar in Greenland’s far northeast reveal how much ice is being lost by the 79° N Glacier. According to observations…
Scientists Investigate Complicated Patterns of Tipping Points in the Atlantic’s Current System
An international team of scientists has advised against depending on nature to provide simple ‘early warning’ indicators of a climate calamity, citing new mathematical modeling…
Ice Cores give the Earliest Proof of Fast Antarctic Ice Loss in History
Researchers discovered the first concrete evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank abruptly and dramatically toward the end of the Last Ice Age, some…
Mercury Rising – Study gives new information on Environmental Consequences of Ancient Volcanoes
Massive volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history that emitted large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere are usually associated with periods of severe environmental change and…
Oceanic Crust
Oceanic crust is the outermost layer of Earth’s lithosphere that sits underneath the ocean basins. It is the top layer of the oceanic part of…
Climate and Rock Weathering – the Biggest Carbon Sinks are Low-lying Mountain Ranges
For hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature of Earth’s surface has fluctuated by little more than 20° Celsius, allowing life to thrive on…
The Gibraltar arc is moving Westward from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic
The oceans are constantly changing, most of the time over millions of years. Researchers from Portugal’s Universidade de Lisboa and Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz…
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