Categoria: Earth

Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pattern is being disrupted for tens of thousands of years [more…]

The largest snowflake we know of was a 38-centimetre whopper. And despite scientific scepticism, Guinness World Records says sources support the claim

Millions of years after humans vanish, fossil clues showing how we lived and dominated the planet may confuse future civilisations, says a new book by [more…]

Satellites have detected large volumes of methane spewing from Mount Fentale’s crater following months of earthquakes that have shaken the region

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed – and we can’t fully understand how life began to [more…]

Spreading crushed rocks on fields can absorb CO2 from the air – now chemists have devised a way to turbocharge this process by creating more [more…]

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power photosynthesis, which may be because they evolved at a time when the oceans [more…]

Throughout Earth’s history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes [more…]

Seismic measurement of Los Angeles’s depleted aquifers show a year of heavy precipitation hasn’t been enough to refill them

Seismic waves suggest the planet’s solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over just a few [more…]