Earth

  1. Earth

    Arctic Ocean hosts weird freshwater pond

    Odd, persistent winds prevent river inputs from mixing with the sea.

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  2. Earth

    AGU conference on climate and civilizations

    Ancient trash piles yield Everglades trees, plus 'green' Vikings and more in meeting news.

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  3. Earth

    A matter of gravity

    A new map of Earth’s gravitational field is the sharpest ever acquired.

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  4. Humans

    Record ‘Arctic’ ozone minimum expands beyond Arctic

    In mid-March, our online story about the thinning of stratospheric ozone over the Arctic noted that conditions appeared primed for regional ozone losses to post an all-time record. On April 5, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud announced that Arctic ozone had indeed suffered an unprecedented thinning. And these air masses are on the move to mid-latitudes.

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  5. Life

    Worries grow over monarch butterflies

    Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.

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  6. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    A new explanation of cold northeast winters, plus shrinking newborns and the Russian heat wave in this week’s news.

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  7. Humans

    Climate meddling dates back 8,000 years

    Cutting down trees put lots of carbon into the atmosphere long before the industrial revolution began.

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  8. Earth

    Major earthquakes not linked

    Global seismic risks don’t rise following big events, scientists say.

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  9. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Monsoons may have sped India's tectonic plate, plus saber-toothed reptiles and leaden bones in this week's news.

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  10. Humans

    Noise is what ails beaked whales

    Large-scale experiments reveal a sensitivity to sonar, apparently at lower levels than other species.

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  11. Earth

    Global gale warning

    Over the world’s oceans, the strongest winds may be getting more powerful, a new study shows.

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  12. Life

    Fruit-eating fish does far-flung forestry

    Overfishing may be robbing trees in the Amazonian floodplain of vital seed dispersers.

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