earth science
How do you get usable phosphorus into a system? A new study suggests lightning can do the trick.
Some scientists believe the lightning-produced frequencies may be connected to our brain waves, meditation, and hypnosis.
Growing marijuana in large, climate controlled warehouses is good for production but has a massive carbon footprint.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
A reversal in Earth's magnetic field 42,000 years ago triggered climate catastrophes and mass extinctions. Can the field flip again?
If we lose our pollinators, we'll soon lose everything else.
This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun's rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
A warming Arctic Circle could be responsible for bursts of cold weather in the south.
A study of europium crystals shows the planet was mostly flat during its middle ages.
A new model of plate tectonics offers a chance to look back a billion years with new found accuracy.
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
Participation in community science programs has skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Some mysteries take generations to unfold.
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020's scorching climate data.
Researchers from Harvard receive permission for a test that may help cool Earth and fight global warming.
Researchers from Norway discover that the Moon's tides influence the release of methane from the ocean floor.
You think you've had a day where everything that went wrong could? T. rex has you beat.
The clash of tectonic plates beneath us is just part of life on Earth—unless, of course, there is human interference like in the American Midwest.
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Giant fans start capturing CO2 from the air as the world's first commercial carbon capture plant goes live.
What the average person in the Westernized world considers to be a big problem is rarely aligned with reality.