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El Niño is stronger now than at any point in the last thousand years
19+ hour, 57+ min ago (1028+ words) Drilled cores from Galápagos coral carry an ocean temperature record back to the year 1000, and recent decades break the pattern. When the tropical Pacific warms every few years, the weather turns strange thousands of miles away. Direct measurements of that…...
Ancient wildfires may have inspired one of humanity’s biggest inventions
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (880+ words) Ancient wildfires may have inspired pottery by showing early farmers how fire could transform ordinary clay into a hard, durable material. Long before anyone deliberately shaped a bowl, a stretch of ancient wildfires may have quietly handed early farmers the…...
Coastal marsh erosion is moving huge amounts of carbon into the ocean
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1019+ words) Coastal marshes lock away carbon for centuries. But when they erode, that buried carbon slips sideways into the sea. Coastal marshes sit where land meets the sea. Their plants trap mud and sand, while their soils store carbon from roots…...
Ancient iron reveals how mountains and plants reshaped Earth
1+ week, 2+ day ago (703+ words) Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past 1.2 billion years. For decades, scientists have relied on ancient iron deposits to trace how Earth’s oceans and atmosphere first filled…...
Deep Atlantic life depends on oxygen from one surprising place
3+ week, 4+ day ago (779+ words) A new study traces a vast share of the deep North Atlantic’s oxygen supply to the Labrador Sea, revealing its critical role in sustaining marine life. Miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, in total darkness, there’s an entire…...
How extreme cold and low precipitation make Antarctica the largest desert on Earth
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1012+ words) Ice-covered Antarctica is scientifically classified as Earth's largest desert and how extreme cold and low precipitation define a polar desert. A desert is not defined by sand, and it is not defined by heat. It is defined by the absence…...