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Rain is coming to Antarctica – here’s how it will change the frozen continent
9+ hour, 12+ min ago (907+ words) Bethan Davies receives funding from the FCDO Polar Regions Department. Newcastle University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Rain is rare in Antarctica. Scientists doing fieldwork there dress for cold and glare, not wet weather " duvet jackets,…...
Snowball Earth wasn’t fully frozen: ice-free oases sheltered early life
1+ week, 5+ day ago (770+ words) Research Fellow, School of Ocean & Earth Science, University of Southampton, University of Southampton Professor in Earth & Climate Science, University of Southampton Thomas Gernon receives funding from the WoodNext Foundation, a fund of a donor-advised fund program. He is affiliated with…...
The first ice core library in Antarctica to save humanity’s climate memory
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (732+ words) Emeritus Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern Thomas Stocker is the president of the Ice Memory Foundation. On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide…...
Ancient African bedrock reveals the violent beginnings of life on our blue planet
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (859+ words) Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka " Victoria University of Wellington Simon Lamb has received grants from the UK Natural Environment Research Council which has supported this work. His book 'The Oldest Rocks on Earth' is published by Columbia University…...
Over 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (624+ words) Sally Christine Reynolds does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Bournemouth University provides funding as…...
A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (797+ words) Professor in Earth Sciences, Durham University James Baldini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment....
Volcanoes can help us untangle the evolution of humans – here’s how
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (931+ words) PhD Candidate, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Lecturer in Geoscience, The University of Melbourne Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding…...
Lakeshore shallows can be biodiversity hotspots – but warming is changing their complex ecology
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (733+ words) Simon Donald Stewart works for the Cawthron Institute. He receives funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (Grant No CAWX2305 and C01X2205). The 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as "Earth's eye" " a…...
Mars has a solid inner core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery — new study
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (892+ words) UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford DPhil Student, University of Oxford University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Scientists have discovered that Mars has an interior structure similar to Earth's. Results…...
We detected deep pulses beneath Africa – what we learned could help us understand volcanic activity
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1025+ words) Associate Professor of Earth Science , University of Southampton Professor in Earth & Climate Science, University of Southampton Emma Watts works for Swansea University. She receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council and the UK Research Council. Thomas Gernon works for the…...