Mineral cave deposits from northern Siberia show that the region was permafrost free during the late Miocene period, when ...

The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three ...

Using Earth’s glaciers as an analog, a new study explores the possibility of downward propagation of fractures and melt in ...

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New satellite technology has revealed that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, an unexpected turn of events that could ...

In temperate forests, the biomass-building benefits of warmer growing seasons are offset by damaging variability in winter ...

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Frustrated, Lam joined the world of environmental policy—a “rebound relationship,” she said. While enrolled in a ...

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A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved ...

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Scientists find that water stress drives the connection between surface temperature and crop yield loss, providing ...