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In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and pulled up ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago — roughly 50 percent further back than any ice core had ever reached, with the air of that vanished world still sealed inside the bubbles
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (148+ words) For the first time, scientists have captured atmospheric samples from when our ancestors first walked upright, frozen in ice that predates any previous climate record by half a million years. By Lab Report · Edited by Nato Lagidze Published August 28, 2026 · How…...
Scientists drilling through Antarctic ice pulled up a core containing air bubbles trapped 800,000 years ago, before modern humans existed, before agriculture, before written language — and the ancient air was still sealed inside
8+ hour, 46+ min ago (429+ words) Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. It fell as snow around 800,000 years ago,…...
The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern instruments. Its plume climbed approximately 57 kilometres—higher than any volcanic plume observed during the satellite era—and injected enough water vapour to increase the stratosphere’s global water content by roughly 10%.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1530+ words) The Hunga Tonga eruption set distinct records in atmospheric pressure, plume height and stratospheric water. The instruments behind each number reveal why the event was so unusual. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit…...
If West Antarctica's ice sheet collapsed, the U.S. East Coast would gain more than the coast nearest the ice — because the ice sheet's gravity pulls the ocean toward it
1+ week, 4+ day ago (693+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 17, 2026 · How we edit Most of us picture melting ice like water filling a bathtub: the level rises evenly, everywhere. That picture is wrong. The real rise is uneven, shaped by gravity, Earth’s rotation…...
About 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew just 900 kilometres from the South Pole; an Antarctic seafloor core preserved its roots, pollen and spores beneath what is now a world of ice
2+ week, 4+ day ago (882+ words) Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit A dark layer inside a sediment core from the seabed off West Antarctica contained something that should feel impossible: a dense network of fossil roots, along with pollen and spores from a temperate rainforest that…...
The Pacific is the largest ocean on Earth, bigger than all the continents combined, and it is also the one that is slowly closing, consumed around its edges a little faster than its floor can spread
3+ week, 6+ day ago (635+ words) The Pacific Ocean is the largest single feature on the surface of the Earth. It is also, slowly, getting smaller. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published August 1, 2026 The Pacific Ocean is the largest single feature on the surface of the…...
How did hunter-gatherers in southeastern Anatolia quarry, carve, and raise 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge, without metal tools or the wheel?
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (510+ words) At Göbekli Tepe, hunter-gatherers raised 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures around 9600 BCE — 6,000 years before Stonehenge — using flint tools, wooden sledges, log rollers, ropes, and coordinated labour. Here is how the mechanics actually worked. By Science Blog Editorial Team…...
In 2011 the Netherlands dumped twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand into the sea in one enormous pile, and let wind and tide spread it into new coastline for the next twenty years instead of trucking sand in every few years
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (118+ words) In 2011, engineers piled 21.5 million cubic metres of sand into a single peninsula off the Dutch coast and then largely left it alone, betting that wind, waves, and currents would spread it into new coastline over the next twenty years. By…...
For decades the heavy rocks crossing Death Valley were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding across the lakebed on thin rafts of melting ice pushed by an almost imperceptible wind
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (965+ words) Across a dry lakebed in one of the hottest places on Earth, heavy rocks leave long trails in the mud as if they have travelled under their own power. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 15, 2026 The answer…...
A flame has burned inside a grotto behind a waterfall near Buffalo for generations, through rain and snow, and when geologists finally investigated they found the rock below was nowhere near hot enough to explain where the gas is coming from
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (383+ words) Behind a thin curtain of water in western New York, a flame flickers from a crack in dark shale. Snow can surround it in winter, spray can soak the grotto...