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Drop a bottle cap into a river and follow it. Within days it can be out at sea, and on the way the water around it turns from fresh to fully salty. It does not travel empty. To anything small enough,…
Some lobster and razor clam products sold in shops and restaurants in Asturias, northern Spain, are cheaper American species carrying the name of a local one, a DNA survey published Sept. 6 in the…
A cost model of steelmaking in six Southeast Asian countries finds that cutting the industry's carbon dioxide emissions by two-thirds by 2050 would cost no more per metric ton of steel than a far…
Microbes in the eastern Mediterranean take up at least as much phosphorus from organic molecules as they do from phosphate, the mineral form dissolved in seawater, according to tracer measurements…
Charcoal buried in rock drilled from the seafloor off West Antarctica records forests and bogs that burned again and again about 900 kilometers from where the South Pole then sat, at a time when the…
Until now, a Brazilian who wanted to know how much oil had been spilled along their own coast had to know which agency to ask, and then ask several more. The records existed. They were held in…
A rice paddy in the monsoon is a shallow pond with plants standing in it. The water is the reason the field matters to the climate. It shuts the air out of the soil, and the microbes living in the…
Fires that follow a flash drought, a rapid collapse of root-zone soil moisture over days to weeks, spread roughly 1.3 to 1.8 times faster in their opening hours than fires not linked to flash…
A synthesis of 276 site-years of peatland carbon measurements has put a concrete depth threshold on a widely used but loosely defined climate recommendation: raising the water table in drained…
A plastic crate that spends a summer in the yard comes back faded and chalky. Leave it there for a few more summers and it turns brittle, then starts to crumble. Manufacturers have a standard fix for…
The rains come back to the Sahel in a handful of dramatic days. Storms build over the dry country south of the Sahara. The first heavy showers fall, and the season that feeds most of the region's…
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and CNRS have used six years of elephant seal dive data to show that small-scale ocean currents, known to churn the surface, are also active…