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Amazon rainforest foliage gases affect the Earth’s atmosphere

Plant-foliage-derived gases drive a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon over the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent study by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...

Scientists connect the dots between Galilean moon, auroral emissions on Jupiter

On November 8, 2020, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, to its auroral footprint...

The 11 biggest unanswered questions about dark matter

Dark Matter Web In the 1930s, a Swiss astronomer named Fritz Zwicky noticed that galaxies in a distant cluster were orbiting one another much faster...

How did cockroaches survive the dino-killing asteroid strike?

Why they may outlast humans on Earth. When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted from outer space and slammed into the Earth...

Russia could end its role in the International Space Station by 2024

The director general of Russia's Roscosmos space agency has threatened to end its Russia's involvement with the ISS. Russia could end its cooperation on the...

Researchers demonstrate new link between greenhouse gases and sea level rise

A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming effect on the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Scientists...

The Earth beneath us may be shifting

Ground-breaking research into the hot structures deep in the Earth suggest they could be much more fluid than once supposed. An article published this week...

Why Australia has to quit stalling and wean itself off fossil fuels

If the world acts now, we can avoid the worst outcomes of climate change without any significant effect on standards of living. That's a...

Exposed sediments reveal decades of Lake Powell history

Usually when a geologist walks up to a sedimentary rock outcrop and starts scanning the layers of sand, mud and silt now turned to...

What is climate change, and how is it affecting Earth?

Climate change is real and humans are causing it. Climate change is any long-term alteration in average weather patterns, either globally or regionally. Climate change...

What’s the longest lightning bolt ever recorded?

"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he...

Amazon: Earth’s mightiest river

The Amazon River is a massive, intricate water system weaving through one of the most vital and complex ecosystems in the world — the...

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