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Craig Walton is the first NOMIS Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich.

This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October 15 by NASA's Juno.

Sediment from Canada's Mackenzie River empties into the Beaufort Sea in milky swirls in this 2017 satellite image. Scientists are studying how river discharge drives carbon dioxide emissions in this part of the Arctic Ocean. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen using Landsat data from USGS" Runoff from one of North America's largest rivers is driving intense carbon dioxide emissions in the Arctic Ocean.

EPFL's Habitat Research Center has created the first atlas of Paris landscapes, after winning a request for proposals by the French government and the City of Paris.

If we want to achieve our climate goals and prevent irreversible changes to the Earth's climate system, we not only need to curb our greenhouse gas emissions, but also remove excess man-made CO2 from the atmosphere.

As of 15 December, Mariette Wolthers is appointed professor of Aquatic Geochemistry in the Earth Sciences Department of the Faculty of Geosciences.

A new research project at the University of Twente will develop a novel way to identify and monitor landslides, even when cloud cover obscures traditional satellite images.

A new research project at the University of Twente will develop a novel way to identify and monitor landslides, even when cloud cover obscures traditional satellite images.

Adapted from a Nov. 28 news release by Doe's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. On Nov.

The research programme DeepNL of the Dutch Research Counsil NWO aims to improve the fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the deep subsurface under the influence of human interventions.

An SFU professor is looking at the viability of storing large volumes of carbon dioxide in a soda pop-like solution thousands of metres below the streets of Metro Vancouver to help B.C. meet its net-zero emission goals.

This December 12, Sibylle Boxho, a doctoral student in geology, leaves on a 2-month mission to Antarctica.

NASA's EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth's dry regions using data from the year ending November 2023. The mission collected billions of measurements of the three minerals and seven others that may affect. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech" EMIT delivers first-of-a-kind maps of minerals in Earth's dust-source areas, enabling scientists to model the fine particles' role in climate change and more.

Motivated by her late father's disability, UCalgary geographer Victoria Fast leads Mapping Our Cities for All project to measure accessibility of Canadian cities Dr. Victoria Fast, PhD, and her

Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and storing it either in recycled concrete aggregate or in geological reservoirs in Iceland is not only technically feasible, but also has a positive carbon footprint.

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has expanded the reach of Pacific Ocean monitoring with the deployment of new deep-sea Argo floats that collect vital ocean data while traveling up and down through the water column, the space between the sea surface and the seafloor.

Working with industry partner, Earth sciences professor Roberta Flemming successfully tested miniaturized device A Western-led research team has developed the first-ever hand-held diffraction tool for the identification of minerals in their natural setting on planetary surfaces such as Mars.

With increasing temperatures, more heatwaves and less snowfall, glacier melt is accelerating. Whether we will still have water reserves in the form of frozen ice by 2100 depends heavily on efforts to contain the climate crisis.

SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists - and climate change.

SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists - and climate change.

To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more. Wenhao Sun, Dow Early Career Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, and Joonsoo Kim, a doctoral candidate of materials science and engineering in Professor Sun-s research group, show off dolomite rocks from their lab's collection.

Governments that over-rely on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to meet their climate targets may be breaching international law, says a new study.

Unlike the Pacific Northwest, the Atacama Desert in Chile experiences very little rain. But the two regions are both seismically active.

Such high-tide flooding that inundates roads and buildings along the west coast of the Americas tends to be uncommon outside of El Niño years, but that could change by the 2030s.

Yale paleontologists have identified a -problematic- fossil as an ancient sea creature that lived in the plankton 420 million years ago. The mystery of Ezekiel's Wheel - the extinct sea creature, not the Biblical vision - may have taken its final turn, thanks to Yale paleontologists. In so doing, the researchers have also finally put a scientific name to the favorite fossil of a beloved amateur fossil hunter.

How to live with the dead? A PhD candidate in literature shares her reflections on death, identity, geography and culture.

GreenFjord is a four-year research program intended to investigate how climate change is affecting ecosystems in southern Greenland.

GreenFjord is a four-year research program intended to investigate how climate change is affecting ecosystems in southern Greenland.

Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away.

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the latest satellite contributing to a 30-year sea level record that researchers are using to compare this year's El Niño with those of the past.

David Schultz , University of Manchester A small tornado recently passed through the town of Littlehampton on England's south coast.

To prevent irreversible and damaging changes to the Earth's climate system, we need to remove excess (man-made) CO2 from the atmosphere.

From 1 November 2023, Kei Otsuki will be appointed professor of International Development Studies at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the faculty of Geosciences.

Sorbonne University Alliance Multidisciplinary research Mathilde, Thomas, Hugo and Manon are Master's students at Sorbonne University.

Along the coast of East Greenland lie some of the most untouched fjords and glacier landscapes in the world.

Savannas and grasslands in drier climates around the world store more carbon than scientists previously thought and are helping to slow the rate of climate warming, according to a new study. Because drier savannas are more sensitive to changes in fires, the decreases in burned area in those ecosystems has resulted in soils storing more carbon than they are releasing Adam Pellegrini The study estimates that soils in savanna-grassland regions worldwide have gained 640 million metric tons of stored carbon over the past two decades.