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A research team at Hokkaido University has published global maps estimating how much silicate, nitrate and carbon sink out of the sunlit surface ocean each year, and how much is carried back up. The…
Droughts that dry out every layer of the soil at once have grown longer and more frequent across more than half of the world's land since 1981, according to a study published Sept. 1 in Nature…
A child in Accra keeps two addresses. One is home. The other is a schoolyard, which may sit in a very different part of the city. Traffic fumes and traffic noise do not respect that split: both vary…
Researchers at Pesticide Action Network organizations estimate that 402 million to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning (sudden poisonings that were not deliberate) occur…
Ocean heat extremes and spells of unusually low ocean productivity each raise the odds of a very poor fishing year in a given place, and the odds rise furthest when the two arrive together, according…
Forecasters have a name for the moment a tropical cyclone turns dangerous fast: rapid intensification, an increase of about 35 mph in maximum winds within 24 hours. When it happens far out over open…
Picture the winter sea ice around Antarctica not as a solid lid but as a shifting, fracturing crust. Cracks tear it open: narrow lines called leads and larger stretches of open water near the coast…
On the satellite maps that glaciologists have relied on for four decades, the ice streams of West Antarctica look fixed. Rivers of ice hundreds of kilometers long slide toward the Ross Sea between…
In Kubschütz, a village in the Saxon Oberlausitz, the temperature on the night of June 27 never fell below 29.4 °C, the highest night-time minimum ever recorded in Germany. Earlier that day, at…
Under Net Zero, Dam Reservoirs Would Become the Energy Sector's Top Emitter by 2050 Greenhouse gases from hydropower reservoirs would account for 87% of energy-sector emissions by 2050 if the rest of…
Once a month, someone walks into a private tunnel bored under the summit ridge of the Zugspitze, sprays salt water onto a line of steel electrodes fixed in the limestone, and sends an electric…
From a satellite's usual vantage, the seam where Alaska's boreal forest gives way to open tundra looks like a smudge, a gradual fade from green to brown across hundreds of miles. Up close it is…