Geography News
May 16, 2024
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May 16, 2024 — Sea otters are one of the few animals that use tools to access their food, and a new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools -- most of whom are female -- are able to eat larger prey and reduce tooth damage when their preferred ...
May 16, 2024 — Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or 'forever chemicals,' have become persistent pollutants in the air, water and soil. Because they are so stable, they can be transported throughout the water cycle, making their way ...
May 15, 2024 — Copper cannot be mined quickly enough to keep up with current U.S. policy guidelines to transition the country's electricity and vehicle infrastructure to renewable energy, according to a new ...
May 15, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that colonies of gelatinous sea animals swim through the ocean in giant corkscrew shapes using coordinated jet propulsion, an unusual kind of locomotion that could inspire new designs for efficient underwater ...
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May 15, 2024 — 'Dust clouds' at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the biggest part. Yet, a small portion of the stirred-up bottom ...
May 14, 2024 — Monitoring the effects of climate change in Greenland has been made much easier with an innovative ...
May 14, 2024 — The balsam woolly adelgid, a tiny nonnative flightless insect, is spreading across the American West killing subalpine fir in northern Utah's recreation-heavy mountain ranges and canyons. Rsearchers ...
May 14, 2024 — The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while ...
May 14, 2024 — Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the coldest summer during the same ...
May 13, 2024 — Today's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found ...
May 13, 2024 — Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans ...
May 9, 2024 — A new model for predicting the effects of climate change on malaria transmission in Africa could lead to more targeted interventions to control the disease according to a new study. Previous methods ...
May 9, 2024 — Despite its benefits and recognition as a keystone practice of ocean stewardship and conservation, adoption of ecosystem-based management has been slow to take hold. To support this change in ocean ...
May 9, 2024 — An international collaboration says the world's largest marine protected areas aren't collectively delivering the biodiversity benefits they could be because of slow implementation of management ...
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May 8, 2024 — Ancient, expansive tracts of continental crust called cratons have helped keep Earth's continents stable for billions of years, even as landmasses shift, mountains rise and oceans form. A new ...
May 7, 2024 — Tipping points in the climate system can be the result of a slow but linear development. However, they can also be accompanied by a 'flickering', with two stable climatic states that ...
May 7, 2024 — Solar energy is a crucial asset in the fight against climate change, and researchers have now devised a smart approach to optimize its effectiveness. Their innovative method includes incorporating ...
May 7, 2024 — A research group explores how the makeup of rocks, specifically their permeability -- or how easily fluids can flow through them -- affects the frequency and intensity of slow slip events. Slow ...
May 7, 2024 — Discharge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea. A new study shows that these emissions caused pollution corresponding to socio-economic costs of more than EUR 680 ...
May 6, 2024 — To preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water. That is one of the striking conclusions from a new ...
May 3, 2024 — Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf ...
May 6, 2024 — The names might not be familiar -- Cowee Creek, Brabazon Range, Upper Pederson Lagoon -- but they mark the sites of recent lake tsunamis, a phenomenon that is increasingly common in Alaska, British ...
May 2, 2024 — Some of the ocean's tiniest organisms get swept into underwater currents that act as a conduit that shuttles them from the sunny surface to deeper, darker depths where they play a huge role in ...
May 2, 2024 — Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west Africa's wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The ...
May 1, 2024 — A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...
May 1, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica, which was nearly twice the size of Wales and occurred during the winters of 2016 ...
May 1, 2024 — A research team has found that ancient rocks and fossils from long-extinct marine reptiles in Angola clearly show a key part of Earth's past -- the splitting of South America and Africa and the ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled evidence for ancient human resilience to climate change in the Eastern ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Evapotranspiration (ET) includes evaporation from soil and open water pools such as lakes, rivers, and ponds, as well as transpiration from plant leaves. The difference between precipitation and ET ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A new study that looked at nearly 40 million flights in 2019 calculated the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel for essentially every country on the planet. At 911 million tons, the total ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Landslides are one of the most destructive natural disasters on the planet, causing billions of dollars of damage and devastating loss of life every year. A global team of researchers has provided ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — In unincorporated communities in the United States-Mexico borderlands, historically and socially marginalized populations become invisible to the healthcare system, showing that geography acts as a ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Interactions between wind turbines could reduce power output by 30% in proposed offshore wind farm areas along the East Coast, new research has found. In all, the farms could still meet 60% of the ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Oil is an important natural resource for many industries, but it can lead to serious environmental damage when accidentally spilled. While large oil spills are highly publicized, every year there are ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- It Flickers, Then It Tips -- Study Identifies Early Warning Signals for the End of the African Humid Period
- Efficacy of Solar Panels Boosted
- Researchers Show That Slow-Moving Earthquakes Are Controlled by Rock Permeability
- Millions in Costs Due to Discharge of Scrubber Water Into the Baltic Sea
Monday, May 6, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- For Microscopic Organisms, Ocean Currents Act as 'expressway' To Deeper Depths
- Wildfires in Wet African Forests Have Doubled in Recent Decades
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Do Earthquake Hazard Maps Predict Higher Shaking Than Actually Occurred?
- Mystery Behind Huge Opening in Antarctic Sea Ice Solved
- Rock Solid Evidence: Angola Geology Reveals Prehistoric Split Between South America and Africa
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Scientists Show Ancient Village Adapted to Drought, Rising Seas
- Researchers Develop an AI Model to Reduce Uncertainty in Evapotranspiration Prediction
- Big Data Reveals True Climate Impact of Worldwide Air Travel
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Researchers Introduce New Way to Study, Help Prevent Landslides
- How Geography Acts as a Structural Determinant of Health
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- New Offshore Wind Turbines Can Take Away Energy from Existing Ones
- The Longer Spilled Oil Lingers in Freshwater, the More Persistent Compounds It Produces
- Warming Arctic Reduces Dust Levels in Parts of the Planet
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Managing Meandering Waterways in a Changing World
- Securing Competitiveness of Energy-Intensive Industries Through Relocation: The Pulling Power of Renewables
- Modeling Broader Effects of Wildfires in Siberia
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Warming Climate Is Putting More Metals Into Colorado's Mountain Streams
- Tropical Fish Are Invading Australian Ocean Water
- No Bull: How Creating Less-Gassy Cows Could Help Fight Climate Change
Monday, April 22, 2024
- World's Oases Threatened by Desertification, Even as Humans Expand Them
- Feedback Loop That Is Melting Ice Shelves in West Antarctica Revealed
- Everest Mountaineer's Letters Digitized
Friday, April 19, 2024
- The Italian Central Apennines as a Source of CO2
- Helping Migrating Salmon Survive Mortality Hot-Spot
- New Research Shines a Light on How Expert Mapmakers See the World Differently
- Warming of Antarctic Deep-Sea Waters Contribute to Sea Level Rise in North Atlantic, Study Finds
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- One Third of China's Urban Population at Risk of City Sinking, New Satellite Data Shows
- Marine Microbial Populations: Potential Sensors of the Global Change in the Ocean
- More Sustainability in Global Agricultural Trade
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Global Study Reveals Health Impacts of Airborne Trace Elements
- Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2
- 38 Trillion Dollars in Damages Each Year: World Economy Already Committed to Income Reduction of 19 % Due to Climate Change
- Substantial Global Cost of Climate Inaction
- Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Scientists Develop Framework to Measure Plastic Emissions and Bolster U.N. Efforts to Reduce Pollution
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- Fires Pose Growing Worldwide Threat to Wildland-Urban Interface
- Plastic Pollution Can Kill Variety of Ocean Embryos
- Yellowstone Lake Ice Cover Unchanged Despite Warming Climate
- Most Countries Struggle to Meet Climate Pledges from 2009
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Global North Energy Outsourcing Demands More Attention
- Hidden Threat: Global Underground Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise
- GeoAI Technologies for Sustainable Urban Development
- New Radar Analysis Method Can Improve Winter River Safety
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Where Have All the Right Whales Gone?
- Retention Ponds Can Deliver a Substantial Reduction in Tire Particle Pollution
- Oceanographers Uncover the Vital Role of Mixing Down of Oxygen in Sustaining Deep Sea Health
- Africa's Iconic Flamingos Threatened by Rising Lake Levels
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Ocean Currents Threaten to Collapse Antarctic Ice Shelves
- Cloud Engineering Could Be More Effective 'painkiller' For Global Warming Than Previously Thought
- Mapped: 33 New Big Game Migrations Across American West
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Pacific Cities Much Older Than Previously Thought
- Microplastic 'hotspots' Identified in Long Island Sound
- Deforestation Harms Biodiversity of the Amazon's Perfume-Loving Orchid Bees
- New Approach Needed to Save Australia's Non-Perennial Rivers
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Tiny Plastic Particles Are Found Everywhere
- Impact of Climate Change on Marine Life Much Bigger Than Previously Known
- Humans Converted at Least 250,000 Acres of Estuaries to Cities, Farms in Last 35 Years
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Atmospheric and Economic Drivers of Global Air Pollution
- How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions
- Deep Parts of Great Barrier Reef 'insulated' From Global Warming -- For Now
- Climate Change Threatens Antarctic Meteorites
- Boreal Forest and Tundra Regions Worst Hit Over Next 500 Years of Climate Change, Study Shows
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Ocean Waves Propel PFAS Back to Land
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
- Heat Stress from Ocean Warming Harms Octopus Vision
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Ocean Floor a 'reservoir' Of Plastic Pollution
- Adult Fish Struggle to Bounce Back in Marine Protected Areas
- Fish Species That Move Rapidly Toward the Poles Due to Global Warming Decline in Abundance, Study Finds
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- New Step in Tectonic Squeeze That Turns Seafloor Into Mountains
- A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models
- Scientists' Urgent Call: End Destruction and Forge a Just, Sustainable Future
Monday, April 1, 2024
Friday, March 29, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- New Approach to Monitoring Freshwater Quality Can Identify Sources of Pollution, and Predict Their Effects
- Open Waste Burning Linked to Air Pollution in Northwestern Greenland
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Land Under Water: What Causes Extreme Flooding?
- Evolution of the Most Powerful Ocean Current on Earth
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Researchers Find Energy Development and Tree Encroachment Impact Wyoming Pronghorn
- New Maps Help Decision-Makers Factor Albedo Into Tree-Planting Decisions
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Global Study of Coastal Seas as Carbon Dioxide Reservoirs
- Greener Streets Linked to Better Sleep
- Persian Plateau Unveiled as Crucial Hub for Early Human Migration out of Africa
- Better Phosphorus Use Can Ensure Its Stocks Last More Than 500 Years and Boost Global Food Production
- Droughts in Europe Could Be Avoided With Faster Emissions Cuts
- 'Winners and Losers' As Global Warming Forces Plants Uphill
Friday, March 22, 2024
- Scientists Explore Complex Pattern of Tipping Points in the Atlantic's Current System
- Enormous Ice Loss from Greenland Glacier