14+ hour, 16+ min ago   (641+ words) Stanford researchers analyzed global seafloor data from an ancient cooling era, expecting thick sand deposits, but found almost no sand across all seven continents, defying standard models. When a Stanford team went looking for sediment that should have blanketed the…...

15+ hour, 57+ min ago   (754+ words) A global analysis of 37,000 petrochemical facilities reveals that just 10% produce 53% of the industry's emissions. Emissions from the petrochemical industry, already a major source of carbon dioxide on the planet, could climb by 50 percent by 2050 if nothing changes. New research has…...

17+ hour, 57+ min ago   (1075+ words) Climate extremes are intensifying fastest in an unexpected part of the Amazon, where extreme dry-season temperatures are rising far faster than averages. For years, the story of Amazon climate change centered on the south, the region hit hardest by deforestation…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1028+ words) Drilled cores from Galápagos coral carry an ocean temperature record back to the year 1000, and recent decades break the pattern. When the tropical Pacific warms every few years, the weather turns strange thousands of miles away. Direct measurements of that…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1015+ words) Lakes across northern North America buried carbon at a steady rate for thousands of years, but that changed dramatically after 1850. Leaves, pollen and washed-in soil sink to the bottom of a lake and settle into mud, and the carbon in…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (880+ words) Ancient wildfires may have inspired pottery by showing early farmers how fire could transform ordinary clay into a hard, durable material. Long before anyone deliberately shaped a bowl, a stretch of ancient wildfires may have quietly handed early farmers the…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (980+ words) Planting trees in snowy regions can reduce their climate benefit because dark forest canopies absorb sunlight that bright snow would reflect. Forest trees pull carbon out of the air, so Canada pays to plant them. In snow country, the land…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (574+ words) A 22% drop in butterfly populations from 2000 to 2020 signals a troubling, widespread decline across the broader pollinator community. Scientists count butterflies more thoroughly than any other insect, which makes them an early-warning system for the health of other animal species that…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1027+ words) Methane in Arctic glacier rivers on Svalbard came from ancient shale, not microbes, and the yearly total is tiny next to what people emit. A glacier melts from the top, and the water runs off in rivers barely above freezing....