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Since 1950, ships working the Mediterranean have stopped over deep water, lowered instruments on a wire and read back the temperature and the saltiness of the sea beneath them. More recently, robots…
A team led by researchers at Université Paris-Saclay has dated the iron-rich crusts that cap a plateau in northern Malawi, finding a continuous span of mineral ages running from 397 million years…
Water enclosed by an ocean eddy leaks back out after only a few days when other eddies are nearby, according to an open-access study published Sept. 19 in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. Eddies…
Environmental DNA taken from water samples and interviews with local fishers have both placed Mytella strigata, a brackish-water mussel native to Central and South America, in the estuaries of Kerala…
Researchers at Simon Fraser University have reconstructed what a 1941 heatwave did to western North America by reading 357 issues of 25 news publications printed before, during and after it, and…
Across several large ensembles of climate models, a warm North Atlantic leaves the tropical Pacific slightly warmer rather than cooler, according to a study published Sept. 18, 2026 in npj Climate…
Soil carbon and the mass of microbes living in soil generally rise together where forests are planted, but how long the gains keep building depends on what the land was before, Zexin Meng of Xi'an…
The Antarctic ozone hole in 2025 was one of the least severe in more than two decades, the World Meteorological Organization reported in its annual ozone bulletin, published Sept. 16. It was the…
A bubble barrier is a simple piece of equipment. Air is pushed into the water at the bottom of a channel and rises as a wall of bubbles, and plastic drifting down with the current is meant to be…
A streetlight on a seawall does not switch off at low tide. Below it the rock is alive with things that cannot move away: seaweeds, flat crusts, a slick of microbes and the small animals that graze…
A study published Sept. 17, 2026 in Environmental Research Letters found no net gain in aboveground carbon in selectively logged tropical forests in central Vietnam, contradicting widely used…
Researchers at Peking University and collaborating institutions have found that localized land sinking in North China's major coastal industrial region could amplify sea-level-driven flood losses by…