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El Niño is stronger now than at any point in the last thousand years
15+ hour, 13+ 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, 18+ 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…...
A massive dust storm erupts in West Africa as the seasons change
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (697+ words) A massive dust storm swept across West Africa in early September, sending a plume over Mali and eventually toward the Atlantic Ocean. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows a massive cloud of dust sweeping across West…...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1023+ words) A remarkably complete armored fish fossil from Brazil survived near a massive asteroid crater, revealing an unexpected link to ancient Europe. Near the end of the Permian, an asteroid hit central Brazil and folded the rock layers around the crater…...
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…...
Scientists discovered a hidden underground forest 2,000 feet deep in China, and it’s teeming with rare species never seen before
1+ week, 3+ day ago (773+ words) At the bottom of a vertical shaft in the karst mountains of Chongqing, a mature subtropical forest grows in permanent half-light, roughly 2,000 feet below the plateau. The… The clouded leopard has been recorded down there, which means wildlife is still…...
Remote island is a bird refuge with exceptionally dark night skies
1+ week, 6+ day ago (726+ words) Stewart Island/Rakiura is a wild corner of New Zealand filled with native birds, ancient forests, rugged beaches, and remarkably dark skies. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features the wild, forest-covered landscape of Stewart Island/Rakiura…...
Africa’s savanna existed millions of years earlier than expected
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (1038+ words) Ancient ocean sediments reveal that Africa’s open grasslands began forming millions of years earlier than previously thought, long before modern grasses took over. The African savanna is one of the most recognizable landscapes on the planet: open grass, a few…...
The U.S. could be sitting on a strategic antimony resource: part of the ore is already at the surface
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1222+ words) Antimony rarely receives the attention given to copper, lithium, or gold. This lustrous, silvery metalloid straddles the line between metals and nonmetals, possessing the unusual quirk of expanding… Antimony rarely receives the attention given to copper, lithium, or gold. This…...
Deep Atlantic life depends on oxygen from one surprising place
3+ week, 3+ 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…...