Earth

  1. Climate

    ‘The Human Element’ makes the impacts of climate change feel real

    Photographer James Balog puts a human face on the impacts of climate change in the documentary The Human Element.

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  2. Climate

    Climate change might not slow ocean circulation as much as thought

    New measurements may call for a rethink of what controls ocean circulation in the North Atlantic.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Chinese ‘tweets’ hint that happiness drops as air pollution rises

    A study of more than 210 million social media posts reveals a link between people’s sense of well-being and pollution.

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  4. Earth

    Five explosive things the 2018 eruption taught us about Kilauea

    Kilauea’s 2018 eruption allowed volcanologists a clear window into the processes that have shaped and influenced the world’s most watched volcano.

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  5. Earth

    Earth’s core may have hardened just in time to save its magnetic field

    Earth’s inner core began to solidify sometime after 565 million years ago — just in time to prevent the collapse of the planet’s magnetic field, a study finds.

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  6. Earth

    50 years ago, scientists tried to control earthquakes with earthquakes

    In the 1960s, researchers proposed preventing a big earthquake by creating smaller ones. That hasn’t quite worked out.

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  7. Animals

    Young emperor penguins brave icy, winter waters in their first year

    Young emperor penguins learn survival skills on their own, including how to navigate Antarctica’s icy winter ocean.

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  8. Agriculture

    Prosecco production takes a toll on northeast Italy’s environment

    The soil in Northern Italy’s prosecco vineyards is washing away.

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  9. Animals

    This honeybee parasite may be more of a fat stealer than a bloodsucker

    Inventing decoy bee larvae prompts a back-to-basics rethink of a mite ominously named Varroa destructor.

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  10. Tech

    Desalination pours more toxic brine into the ocean than previously thought

    Desalination plants help offset the world’s growing water needs, but they also produce much more supersalty water than scientists realized.

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  11. Climate

    A drill built for Mars is being used to bore into Antarctic bedrock

    An autonomous drill originally designed for work on Mars has its first mission in Antarctica.

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  12. Oceans

    Floating seabirds provide a novel way to trace ocean currents

    Seabirds idly drifting with ocean currents provide a novel way to track and understand how these flows change with time and location.

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