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Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
Skip to content Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact. About 66 million […]
Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis
Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse. The Hunga volcano during a 2009 eruption. Credit: […]
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving. Climate change is being driven largely […]
Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst
Skip to content The crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how? One of the central features of plate tectonics is […]
The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior. Earth is the only planet […]
Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate
“Lo and behold, we end up finding that we can explain this apparent discrepancy,” said Hilton. In other words, weathering […]
After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring
In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that […]
Meet the mysterious electrides
These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements. For close to a century, geoscientists […]