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WEB3 days ago · Science news by AGU. Keep up to date on the latest climate and science reporting by journalists, as well as exciting discoveries and insightful opinions from researchers and other scientist authors.
Three Times Tectonics Changed the Climate - Eos
WEBNov 22, 2019 · Fifty years after the birth of modern plate tectonics theory, a group of researchers highlights three key examples of how our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our climate. The ...
The Future of the Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate - Eos
WEBFeb 20, 2020 · Fig. 1. Carbon fluxes (in gigatons of carbon per year, GtCyr-1) of major anthropogenic sources (positive) and natural sinks (negative) demonstrate the corresponding increases in both from 1850 to ...
World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters
WEBSep 13, 2017 · Plankton that are plants, known as phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen. As such, climate ...
The Effect of Coral Bleaching Events in the Great Barrier Reef
WEBMay 31, 2019 · The heat stress made corals eject the symbiotic algae that live alongside the hard coral skeleton. When the algae leave, the remaining coral becomes a stark white color in a process known as ...
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Have You Seen Ball Lightning? Scientists Want to Know About It
WEBJul 15, 2021 · Eyewitness accounts describe hovering balls of light typically about 20 centimeters in diameter, roughly the size of a bowling ball. The balls appear white, yellow, orange, blue, or (rarely) green ...
The Climate and Health Impacts of Gasoline and Diesel Emissions
WEBApr 28, 2020 · New research tallies the effects of gas- and diesel-burning vehicle emissions on the climate, as well as on human health. Together, the emissions cause more than 200,000 premature deaths each year.
An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
WEBMay 17, 2021 · The second phase, SK-2, was completed in 2014–2018 in Anda County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province. SK-2 drilled to a depth of 7,018 meters, the deepest ever by an ICDP project at the time ...
Climate Change Uproots Global Agriculture - Eos
WEBJan 25, 2021 · Climate change [has] posed pressures on availability of water resources for agriculture by shifting precipitation patterns, earlier seasonal snowmelt, and intrusion of saltwater into coastal ...