1+ mon, 17+ hour ago   (537+ words) Uplifted coral terraces along the coast of Espiritu Santo preserve a record of past sea level, reef growth, and tectonic motion in the southwest Pacific. Credit: Kaustubh Thirumalai AGU’s Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology is opening its pages to a new kind…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (385+ words) Jill Pelto describes herself as a climate artist. Her evocative paintings of glacial landscapes, forests, oceans, and savannas reflect the shapes of real environmental and Earth science monitoring data, portraying both the beauty and the vulnerability of our planet. “I’ll…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (724+ words) “I’ve just always felt like art and science are flip sides of the same coin.” Scientists use tools ranging from models to microscopes to make sense of the world around them. Some might say artists do the same thing using…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (405+ words) Glacial runoff, which carries sediments produced by the relentless grinding of ice on the bedrock below, is an important source of trace metal micronutrients in the ocean. These nutrients, in turn, are essential for phytoplankton growth, which sustains the marine…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (125+ words) eos.org The ocean around Antarctica is critical to ocean circulation, climate, and ecosystems. There, vast quantities of heat and anthropogenic carbon are drawn down from the atmosphere and stored at depth, thus moderating the rate of global climate change....

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (534+ words) In Antarctica, however, rare formations known as blue ice areas may offer a distinct look into that deep past. These areas, which make up barely 1% of the continent, form where strong winds strip away surface snow. Not all blue ice…...