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New study disputes Hunga Tonga volcano’s role in 2023–24 global warm-up

VOLCANOES
New research from a collaborative team featuring Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Dr. Andrew Dessler is exploring the climate impact of the 2022 Hunga...

Study detects the largest methane leak ever recorded in an oil well

EARTH
An international team of scientists led by Dr. Luis Guanter, UPV professor and head of the LARS Group of the Institute of Water and...

How old are South African fossils like the Taung Child? Study offers an answer

PALEONTOLOGY
One hundred years ago, the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull...

Fossil insects help to reconstruct the past—how I ended up studying them (and you can too)

PALEONTOLOGY
When I tell people that I study fossils, many assume I am talking about dinosaurs or some equally impressive extinct creatures. But there's far...

New study finds dinosaur fossils did not inspire the mythological griffin

PALEONTOLOGY
A popular and widely-promoted claim that dinosaur fossils inspired the legend of the griffin, the mythological creature with a raptorial bird head and wings...

Sharks have depleted functional diversity compared to the last 66 million years, study finds

PALEONTOLOGY
New research by Swansea University and the University of Zurich has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the...

Study shows video analysis of Iceland 2010 eruption could improve volcanic ash forecasts for aviation safety

VOLCANOES
Video footage of Iceland's 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption is providing researchers from the University of Cambridge with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds—information that...

Study confirms the rotation of Earth’s inner core has slowed

EARTH
University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new...

Study finds natural climate variability impacts Arctic and global warming

EARTH
When comparing model simulations of Earth's recent warming to real-world observations, differences can arise from several factors, including model errors in the simulated response...

Study finds fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth a half-billion years earlier than thought

EARTH
We need two ingredients for life to start on a planet: dry land and (fresh) water. Strictly, the water doesn't have to be fresh,...

Study indicates Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water

PALEONTOLOGY
A study involving the University of Cambridge has used virtual recreations of the earliest animal ecosystems, known as marine animal forests, to demonstrate the...

Study provides new global accounting of Earth’s rivers

EARTH
The Colorado River supplies water to more than 40 million people as it snakes through seven U.S. states, including the part of southeastern Utah...
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