The effects of global climate cycles on Southern Ocean temperatures drove cycles of melting and freezing in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet every few thousand years, according to a new study
Instruments carried by migrating elephant seals measured deep warm-water anomalies that lasted much longer than the surface warming
Scientists deployed monitoring devices on narwhals to record heart rates, breathing, and diving behavior during seismic air gun pulses from a ship in the fjords of Greenland
The state-funded genomics project aims to be a lasting resource for shaping conservation policy
A long-term study of kelp forest dynamics on California’s Central Coast highlights the critical role of sea urchin behavior, not just the size of the urchin population
The most genetically isolated population of polar bears on the planet, they have limited access to sea ice and use ice from Greenland’s glaciers to survive
A new study assesses the planetary context in which the detection of methane in an exoplanet’s atmosphere could be considered a compelling sign of life
A new study provides practical guidelines for using biomarkers to identify ‘smoke taint’ in grapes and wines affected by the smoke from wildfires
Where big quakes were thought unlikely, signs deep down say otherwise
Researchers found that female elephant seals know their distance from the breeding beach and allocate extra time to get back if they have farther to travel
Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age
The river cut a deep channel and abandoned its floodplain in the Felton area around the time of intensive clearcutting in the surrounding mountains
Analysis of ancient DNA from sea cow bones finds genes that may have played a role in adaptation to cold marine environment and yields evidence of a long population decline
Scientists have dated dinosaur tracks in China's Sichuan Basin to 218.4 million years ago, making them the oldest known in China.
The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers at the University of Bristol and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions of especially high numbers of species, scientists have found.
An international group of geologists has demonstrated with computer simulation that huge magma eruptions can initiate deeper below the Earth’s surface than previously believed. Such flood basalt eruptions have caused many global climate changes and great mass extinction events in the past.
Deep snow cover increases the number of wintering birds near human settlements but reduces numbers in arable fields, according to a new study at the University of Helsinki.
In a project coordinated by the University of Helsinki carried out with Finnish Meteorological Insitute, University of Eastern Finland and an international research group, direct observations were made on the interactions between aerosol particles formed in boreal forests and clouds in the atmospheric boundary layer.
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth’s crust, formed over millions of years, move rapidly to the surface disrupting pre-existing rock.