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Earth’s missing lead mystery may finally be solved
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (866+ words) Lead is at the center of one of Earth’s strangest mysteries. A big chunk of it is gone. Not...heavy metal. It acts like a timekeeper for our planet. Scientists use different forms of lead to figure out how…...
NASA has been detecting weekly changes in sea level for 33 years and has now made the data public
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (826+ words) Satellites have tracked week-by-week changes in sea level for 33 years, and NASA has now opened the record. That public stream exposes sudden bumps and dips that can worsen coastal flooding well before yearly averages show the change. NASA posted weekly…...
Earth's crust is breaking apart off the Pacific coast, and scientists are watching it
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (799+ words) Scientists have mapped a deep rip forming beneath the seafloor off Vancouver Island in the The Nootka Fault Zone (NFZ) of the Cascadia subduction margin. A new study reports a trench parallel tear about 22 miles long that is starting to…...
New Copernicus satellites will monitor climate, ice, crops, and emissions
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (779+ words) Space Agency (ESA), where Simonetta Cheli directs Earth observation programs. Cheli’s work focuses on connecting...will fly three satellites about 457 miles above Earth. Cloud cover and weak winds can blur near-ground...
Scientists witnessed the birth of new ocean floor for the first time
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (795+ words) Roughly two-thirds of Earth’s surface is oceanic crust, and all of it is born the same way....into fresh crust across the seabed, building the planet’s outer shell a sliver at a time. Almost no one...
How Earth’s climate suddenly changed 2.7 million years ago
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (842+ words) About 2.7 million years ago, Earth’s climate reached a tipping point that transformed a stable...into one marked by ice ages and abrupt swings. The planet moved from a mostly warm and steady climate to...ancient climate “tipping point.” The…...
Ocean life exploded after Earth's worst mass extinction - Earth.com
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (973+ words) took tens of millions of years to recover after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Most marine life was gone....
Snowball Earth: Why the planet stayed frozen for 56 million years
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (879+ words) assumption that volcanic carbon alone set the clock on Earth’s most extreme climate states. Rocks dating from...the ocean floor gained such outsized control over Earth’s climate clock. Geologists refer to these planet-wide deep freezes as Snowball Earth…...
The season of dinosaur extinction
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (383+ words) The exact moment when Earth’s most catastrophic mass extinction ended the dinosaurs’ reign...piece to the puzzle of how life recovered after Earth’s fifth mass extinction. By understanding exactly...fossil record can unlock major revelations about Earth’s history....
Far side observations prove Earth’s moon is not ‘dead,’ upending long-held beliefs
8+ mon, 12+ hour ago (922+ words) For a long time, the moon looked like a world that finished its big changes early and then went quiet. Its surface still shows scars from ancient lava floods and heavy impacts, but many researchers treated those features as leftovers…...