18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1028+ words) Drilled cores from Galápagos coral carry an ocean temperature record back to the year 1000, and recent decades break the pattern. When the tropical Pacific warms every few years, the weather turns strange thousands of miles away. Direct measurements of that…...

22+ hour, 44+ min ago   (1015+ words) Lakes across northern North America buried carbon at a steady rate for thousands of years, but that changed dramatically after 1850. Leaves, pollen and washed-in soil sink to the bottom of a lake and settle into mud, and the carbon in…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (697+ words) A massive dust storm swept across West Africa in early September, sending a plume over Mali and eventually toward the Atlantic Ocean. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows a massive cloud of dust sweeping across West…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1005+ words) Overlooked ocean foods such as oysters, mussels, shrimp and other invertebrates deliver surprisingly large amounts of essential vitamins and minerals. Fisheries and fish farms report their output in tons, which measures how much food there is but not what’s in…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1027+ words) Methane in Arctic glacier rivers on Svalbard came from ancient shale, not microbes, and the yearly total is tiny next to what people emit. A glacier melts from the top, and the water runs off in rivers barely above freezing....

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1057+ words) Periodical cicadas have failed to return to many recovered forests, and new research suggests natural recolonization could take centuries. Periodical cicadas spend more than a decade underground before pushing out of the ground by the trillions, covering the trees for…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (777+ words) Trees protect wild animals from extreme heat and cold by keeping temperatures inside their cavities more stable than outside. Deep inside the trunk of an old tree, temperatures can remain surprisingly stable, even when the world outside is baking or…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (995+ words) 1.3 million plastic bottles collected in global cleanup reveal the scale of ocean pollution worldwide. A drink may be finished in minutes, but its bottle can become a much longer problem. During the 2025 International Coastal Cleanup, about 630,000 volunteers removed nearly 13.9 million…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (939+ words) Sunflowers can look fully recovered after drought while hidden blockages remain inside their stems for weeks, new research reveals. Water a wilted plant and within a day it stands back up, leaves lifted, looking like it healed. Inside the stem,…...