A 4-billion year old piece of Earth’s crust the size of Ireland has been detected beneath Western Australia according to new research. However this piece of crust is not the oldest. The oldest is in the Canadian Shield on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay which is 4.3 billions years old. The Earth is 4.5 …
A new study shows that we might be able to predict big earthquakes in the near future better than we thought. Attempts were made in the past to predict earthquakes by using signals such as changing water levels or time intervals between earthquakes.
New research shows forest fires are burning twice as much global tree cover as 20 years ago due to climate change. Resulting in blazes claiming an estimated three more million hectares each year – an area the size of Belgium – compared with 2001.
A recent study published in Nature from the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham found that there is a general misconception of the lethal threat volcanoes pose to society and planet Earth at large. The study was authored by Michael
Earth’s current largest ocean, the Pacific, covers more than 30% of the planet’s surface, stretching 19,000 kilometers at its widest point between Columbia and the Malay Peninsula. However, this represents only the remnants of the largest ocean in Earth’s history.
Forests around the Earth are transforming at a shocking rate due to climate change, with trees advancing into previously barren tundra in the north while perishing from excessive heat farther south, scientists have found.
Scientists are studying how the amounts of wildfire smoke mixing with clouds over the Arctic Ocean may play a key role in determining how fast the Arctic sea ice cover will shrink during the next few decades, and when it will disappear completely in summer.
Warmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to alarming new research which reveals a potential new driver of global sea-level rise.
A new study in AGU’s Geophysical Research Letters reports on the first detection of a large, distant earthquake in a network of balloon-bound pressure sensors in the Earth’s stratosphere.
Scientists are concerned that a potential volcanic eruption beneath Antarctica could lead to major global sea level rise. Beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet lie more than 100 volcanoes.
