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Lakes buried carbon steadily for 11,000 years, but then something changed
11+ hour, 47+ 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…...
Earthquake reveals a hidden danger beneath a remote Arctic island
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (820+ words) An earthquake triggered a massive rock avalanche on remote Jan Mayen, but scientists say thawing permafrost may have weakened the slope long before it collapsed. Something strange happened on Jan Mayen last March. An earthquake shook the island, and within…...
4,000-year-old stone preserves a symbol ancient voyagers carried across the sea
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1241+ words) Archaeologists found a 4,000-year-old painted stone in Indonesia that may trace the shared beliefs and identities carried by ancient ocean voyagers. Moving means deciding what to carry and what to leave behind. Four thousand years ago, people crossing open ocean…...
Ancient climate cycles may explain the mysterious Bronze Age collapse
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1120+ words) Stand at the waterline on any beach and watch for a few minutes. Most waves die at roughly the same spot on the sand. Then one runs far past it and soaks the towel you were sure you’d left out…...
Moon's farside samples challenge a decades-old asteroid impact theory
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1084+ words) The Moon’s early history was not a single violent burst of asteroid strikes but a long, slow fade. That is the story told by rocks from the lunar farside, brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission. Their ages show no sign…...
Earthquakes can change how mountains store and release carbon
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (945+ words) When an earthquake tears apart a mountainside, the damage does not stop once the shaking ends. Rain can keep washing that shattered landscape into rivers for years, carrying enormous amounts of carbon along with it. But not all of that…...
A giant ice sheet may have reached Europe much earlier than scientists thought
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (897+ words) For decades, geologists believed a giant ice sheet took hundreds of thousands of years to cross the Baltic Sea and reach western Europe. The timeline seemed well established, built on pollen records and sediment correlations that had shaped the field…...
A long-standing Tibet seismic mystery may have a simple cause: the rocks may be hotter and different than expected
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (824+ words) A long-standing Tibet seismic mystery may finally have a simpler answer. For decades, slow seismic waves beneath the northern plateau suggested the rigid base had been stripped away and replaced by warmer material from deep below. A new analysis proposes…...
A change in Arctic geography may explain the 100,000-year ice age rhythm
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (891+ words) Scientists settled the nature of Earth’s ice age rhythm a century ago. Orbital cycles – Earth’s wobble in its path around the sun – drive cold spells and thaws on a reliable schedule. For most of the last few million years, that…...
A 395-meter rock core acts as a clock to rewrite the Early Triassic timeline
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1075+ words) Beneath northeastern British Columbia, drillers have spent decades pulling gas from a 250-million-year-old seafloor. That same rock is also the most complete surviving record of life’s climb back from Earth’s worst extinction. Nobody paid much attention to that second fact…...