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A survey of the northern Gulf of Mexico has found that 70 bottom simulating reflections (the seismic echo geologists use to trace how deep methane hydrate reaches beneath the seafloor) do not…
A forest does not only take carbon in. On a warm afternoon it hands some straight back, as a thin chemical breath of isoprene, monoterpenes and heavier molecules, the family of compounds that gives a…
For two years, a sealed culture of marine microbes fed itself in a Chinese laboratory: a cyanobacterium and the bacteria that live alongside it, recycling their own nutrients, with nothing added and…
Wildfire strips the loosest part of soil carbon far faster than the carbon locked onto minerals, and the loss keeps deepening for about two decades after a fire, according to a synthesis of 210…
Baseline solar electricity costs range from $0.100 to $0.409 per kilowatt-hour across 184 districts of the West African Power Pool, a University of Groningen-led team reports in a modeling study…
The uncertainty in the global ocean heat record has narrowed roughly six-fold since the 1950s, according to a study published Aug. 29, 2026, in Nature Communications by a team led by the Institute of…
A deep-learning model can estimate wave conditions about a kilometer off the coast from coarse global offshore data, a team at Sun Yat-sen University reports in Communications Earth & Environment. In…
A heatwave arrives faster than it leaves. Anyone who has sat through one knows the shape of it: the air thickens over a day or two, then sits there for a week before grudgingly letting go. Climate…
A study published on Aug. 29, 2026, in Communications Earth & Environment estimates how much carbon dioxide Mexico's groundwater use puts into the atmosphere, using satellite measurements of the…
One autumn, a narwhal swimming up Nordvestfjord, a long, ice-covered arm of water in East Greenland, dove down through the cold surface layer into the warmer, saltier water beneath it. Behind the…
A study published on Aug. 28, 2026, in Environmental Research Letters projects that heat stress on crops and farm workers leaves global economic output roughly 1% lower by 2100 under a…
Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute have engineered a marine bacterium to make the mineral olivine dissolve faster, and measured carbon dioxide being pulled out of the air in a pilot-scale tank…