The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, has been covered in an unexpected layer of snow. In this area, rain is measured in millimetres and decades can go by without a single drop. The rare storm put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), one of the world’s most advanced radio telescopes, into “survival mode,” ...
Scientists have been trying to figure out what a strange patch of cold water in the North Atlantic is for years. Climate change has caused the rest of the world’s oceans to steadily warm, but the North Atlantic Warming Hole has cooled by up to 0.5°F (0.3°C) over the past century, which was not what ...
There is a weather drama going on all over the United States right now. A “heat dome” is making thunderstorms grow around it, and the Atlantic is waking up to its first named storm of the year. The fact that there is both high heat and unexpected tropical activity indicates how unpredictable modern weather patterns ...
A sobering new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals that more than 500 bird species could go extinct within the next century due to escalating threats from climate change, habitat loss, and human activity. Conducted by researchers at the University of Reading, the study highlights that this projected loss is nearly three times ...
Scientists thought for a long time that plant roots followed a simple rule: the deeper you go, the fewer roots there are. But a new study published in Nature Communications has turned this long-held belief on its head. It shows that 20% of plants around the world grow a second set of roots more than ...
There is a silent snowfall happening under the ocean’s shimmering surface. This could be the key to slowing climate change. Plankton, the tiny creatures that float on the ocean’s surface, have long been known by scientists to be very important to the carbon cycle on Earth. But new research shows that their afterlife may be ...
A sweeping global study has overturned long-held assumptions about mosquito feeding behavior, revealing that these disease-carrying insects are far more adaptable than previously believed. Published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, the research analyzed over 15,600 mosquito blood-meal records and found that environmental factors—not just innate preferences—play a major role in determining which hosts mosquitoes feed ...
With her hull straying against the pressure, the Norwegian icebreaker Kronprins Haakon floats through a frozen labyrinth of ice floes eight hundred kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. A brief glimpse of dawn in the endless darkness of the polar night, the sky glows a terrible purple. A group of scientists bracing against -30°C winds ...
Scientists warn that the silently crossing of a crucial threshold by the world’s oceans could destroy marine ecosystems, collapse fisheries, and upset coastal economies. With acidity levels now exceeding safety limits in almost 60% of deep ocean waters 129, a ground-breaking study published in Global Change Biology shows that ocean acidification breached its planetary “danger ...
New research has revealed that emperor penguins are experiencing a faster-than-expected decline due to shrinking Antarctic sea ice. A study by the British Antarctic Survey analyzed satellite images from 2009 to 2024, showing a 22 percent drop in emperor penguin numbers across key colonies. This rate of loss is 50 percent worse than previous estimates, ...
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