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The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed its main trigger.

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changed environmental conditions. How they do so is crucial.

A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed inside extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals, according to new researc

Sixteen years to the day Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana, Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast state's seaport town of Port Fourchon as a Category 4 cyclone on Aug.

A summer class teaches PhD students and early-career archaeologists ceramic petrography, revealing the origins and production methods of past societies.

To facilitate the implementation of its environmental transition plan and provide ongoing support for this, the CNRS recently appointed a scientific officer for sustainable development and risks.

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) thick.

A team of researchers from the CNRS and the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics 1 has developed an innovative imaging method that can probe the bowels of a volcano with unparalleled resolution and depth.

EAPS PhD candidate Jared Bryan found a way to use his research on earthquakes to help understand exoplanet migration.

Antarctica's rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent.

Every living organism uses tiny quantities of metals to carry out biological functions, including breathing, transcribing DNA, turning food into energy, or any number of essential life processes. Life has used metals in this way since single-celled organisms floated in Earth's earliest oceans. Nearly half of the enzymes-proteins that carry out chemical reactions in cells-within organisms require metals, many of which are transition metals named for the space they occupy in the periodic table.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Graham Sheilds and Elias Rugen (both UCL Earth Sciences) discuss their discovery of rocks proving the polar ice caps once expanded so far they joined up around the equator. More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call  "snowball Earth" , when our planet was entirely encased in ice.

Two new interdisciplinary research projects investigating how to prepare for epidemics and volcanic eruption are receiving funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

A work drafted by Alexander von Humboldt but no longer published is being edited at the University of Bern. It contains a pioneering study on global ocean currents, which is more relevant than ever in view of the dwindling Gulf Stream. What would it be like if Beethoven's tenth symphony could be completed?

Science + Technology A rare "dual-initiation" mechanism ruptured a barrier on the fault during the Jan.

A marine hydrogeologist from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Science has joined an expedition exploring the deep ocean off the west coast of British Columbia.

Study: Historical Trends in Cold-Season Mid-Latitude Cyclones in the Great Lakes Region Anyone who's spent their winter months around the Great Lakes has probably had the uncanny experience of living through three seasons in a single weekend. According to new research from the University of Michigan, these wild weather swings are poised to become even more common in the future.

It was Labor Day weekend of 1935, and a powerful hurricane was headed straight for Cuba. At least, that's what the latest forecast track, generated in part by ships at sea, had indicated.

Dr Rob Ixer explains in The Conversation how his research found that Stonehenge's giant Altar Stone originated in north-east Scotland, No one is certain why Stonehenge was built.

A rock formation spanning Ireland and Scotland may be the world's most complete record of "snowball Earth", a crucial moment in planetary history when the globe was covered in ice, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

As summer temperatures rise, so do the associated health risks. This is particularly true in urban areas and cities such as Heidelberg with a density of buildings and limited green spaces.

Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Researcher Caroline Muller Promoted to Professor Caroline Muller , one of the first climate researchers to join the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in 2021, was promoted to full professor.

Abi Stone , The University of Manchester Dominic Stratford , University of the Witwatersrand Desert regions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have been well studied by archaeologists as the home of early humans and as routes of migration along " green corridors ".

Study: Social Transfer Programs as Non-Spatially Targeted Methods of Reducing Interregional Geographic Inequality Social transfer programs have significant geographic differences in spending that hel

The nodes are intended to become part of a widespread sea-ice monitoring network. Shimmering ice extends in all directions as far as the eye can see.

Forests cover a third of the world's land surface. Although they provide us with invaluable services, they are now under so much pressure that we are faced with our own contradictions between their sometimes conflicting roles as sanctuaries for biodiversity, or (over)logged sources of materials.

Environmental evidence of the very first experiments in the evolution of complex life on Earth, has been uncovered by an international team of scientists. Until now, scientists broadly accepted animals first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago. But a team, led by Cardiff University, has discovered evidence of a much earlier ecosystem in the Franceville Basin near Gabon on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa over 1.5 billion years earlier.

On 23 and 24 July, pop singer Taylor Swift gave 2 concerts in the Hamburg Volkspark stadium. Those who couldn't get tickets could at least watch the seismic waves created during the performance, via a live stream from the WAVE network at Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

Data collected by satellites, drones, radars and microscopes provide a goldmine of information to better understand our environment. And when these data are coupled with artificial intelligence (AI), they can unlock the secrets of phenomena taking place at all levels. In a rapidly changing world where environmental threats abound, obtaining a better understanding of natural and anthropogenic processes can help corroborate points of view, guide conservation and renewal efforts, and orient new research.

Today, Lesotho has few natural lakes despite receiving some of the greatest rainfall in southern Africa.

A first-of-its-kind map of groundwater-dependent ecosystems has been developed by an international team of scientists. From desert springs, mountain meadows and streams to coastal wetlands and forests, the interactive resource maps these diverse ecosystems globally, offering insights into their protection status and how they overlap with human communities.

Despite a wet and grey June, summers in Switzerland are getting hotter than expected. The increased summer temperatures harbour risks that we are not well prepared for, says Dominik Schumacher.

Sheri Molnar and her team have collected earthquake relevant data at more than 2,300 locations across Canada's third-largest city centre While earthquake prediction is next to impossible, it is possib