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something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth’s birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1112+ words) volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s an...contains signs of mantle material formed within the planet’s first 100 million years, when much of Earth may have…...
How we talk to kids about nature can change how much they care
3+ week, 1+ day ago (862+ words) How teachers frame nature can shape children's interest in environmental issues, with human-centered lessons producing a stronger short-term response. Ask a room of ten-year-olds why a wetland is worth protecting, and it turns out the answer you give them matters…...
El Niño is stronger now than at any point in the last thousand years
14+ hour, 44+ min ago (1028+ words) Cole, who led the study, chairs the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of...
Asteroid dust may explain what really killed the dinosaurs
1+ week, 6+ day ago (998+ words) Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth and helped wipe out the non-avian dinosaurs. Scientists...and the fireball itself didn’t touch most of the planet. A new study suggests the answer is heat: beads...simulation, it was about…...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (654+ words) jagged appearance. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory reveals this famous landscape from...different perspective – hundreds of miles above Earth. The image was captured by the Operational Land...
Tracking rare water molecules could improve weather forecasts up to five days out
1+ week, 1+ day ago (978+ words) North America, Europe, and Japan. Yoshimura told Earth.com that the heavy hydrogen his team tracked makes...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1023+ words) Permian, just before the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. Geologists call the crater the Araguainha...
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) well above every other sinkhole recorded on the planet. The pit measures 2,054 feet (626 meters) across...figure that earns it the title of deepest sinkhole on Earth. Its volume comes to roughly 4.2 billion cubic...
324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (956+ words) their bodies gradually changed over time. Life on Earth changed greatly when animals began moving from...became the most species-rich animal group on the planet and now dominate many land and freshwater ecosystems....
Ancient iron reveals how mountains and plants reshaped Earth
1+ week, 2+ day ago (703+ words) building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past 1.2 billion years....have relied on ancient iron deposits to trace how Earth’s oceans and atmosphere first filled with oxygen....ranges and the spread of…...