New research suggests that sea levels could rise more steeply than previously predicted, based on fossil coral evidence from the Seychelles Islands. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an international team analyzed fossilized corals to reconstruct past sea levels, revealing abrupt pulses of sea-level rise during the Last Interglacial period. Their findings indicate that ...
Imagine leaving and struggling to breathe not from pollution but from the air itself disappearing. Though headlines mostly feature climate change, a far more existential crisis looms: the oxygen of Earth is vanishing. Not in decades, not in centuries, but over billions of years our planet will choke. Scientists warn that Earth will become uninhabitable ...
New research has revealed that the decline of kelp forests in the Gulf of Maine is reshaping marine food webs and energy dynamics. Scientists found that predator-prey interactions and nutrient flow differ significantly between kelp-dominated and turf-algae-dominated reefs, highlighting the ecological consequences of habitat loss. The Decline of Kelp Forests in the Gulf of Maine ...
Scientists noted an odd phenomenon for years: South Africa was gradually rising out of the sea. They first thought of deep geological forces, maybe a plume of molten rock lifting the ground from beneath. New studies, however, point to a rather more unexpected offender: drought. The very ground under South Africa is rebounding like a ...
Magma stirs deep below the surface of the Earth, building pressure until at last it erupts with terrible power. But suppose nature herself could whisper a warning before the blast? Unusual sentinel discovered by scientists are trees. Rising volcanoes exhale carbon dioxide (CO₂), a gas that fuels surrounding flora, rendering leaves unnaturally green. NASA and ...
The ground is actually blowing up in the far-off, frozen Yamal Peninsula of Siberia. Massive craters some as wide as 70 meters (230 feet) and deep enough to swallow a high-rise have started to show up without warning in 2014, leaving gaping wounds in the permifrost. These are violent, explosive events, hurling bits of earth ...
The biggest iceberg in the world, a frozen behemoth the size of Cornwall, is breaking into thousands of icy fragments close to South Georgia’s wildlife-rich coastlines. After almost four decades of drifting from Antarctica in 1986, this “megaberg” is finally giving way to warmer temperatures; its soaring cliffs are collapsing in a show both amazing ...
For decades, an invisible force, a strong ocean current, has guarded Antarctica’s icy stronghold as a natural barrier against the invading warmth of northern seas. New studies, however, show this shield is failing and the results could be disastrous. Meltwater from the collapsing ice sheets of the continent is accelerating the little-known but important Antarctic ...
For over a hundred years, scientists were baffled by this mysterious creature. Yet, new research has revealed its strange anatomy and previously unknown behavior, completely changing our understanding about the early days of life on Earth. A Fossil That Defied Explanation Back in 1918, paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott unearthed a peculiar fossil in Canada’s legendary ...
