As chief scientist for a voyage of the research vessel Endeavor, oceanographer Melissa Omand oversaw everything from the deployment of robotic submarines to crew-member bunk assignments. The November 2015 expedition 150 kilometers off Rhode Island’s coast was collecting data for Omand’s ongoing investigations of the fate of carbon dioxide soaked up by the ocean.
New experiments have re-created the genesis of Earth’s first continents.
Sea ice around the North Pole has reached its second-lowest low on record, tying with 2007, scientists at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced September 15.
A stretch of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod more than four times the size of Rhode Island has become the first U.S. marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean.
What, if any, steps do you think the United States should take to combat climate change and why, or why not?
Collection of articles written on the science-related policy positions of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. I researched and wrote the section on climate change.
A melting snow patch in Greenland has revealed what could be the oldest fossilized evidence of life on Earth. The 3.7-billion-year-old structures may help scientists retrace the rise of the first organisms relatively soon after Earth’s formation around 4.5 billion years ago, the discoverers report online August 31 in Nature.
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How the seafloor quivers under an intense storm called a “weather bomb” could help reveal Earth’s innermost secrets.
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Climate change flaunted its deadly side during the 2003 European heat wave, which killed over 70,000 people across the continent. In London and Paris alone, global warming led to 570 more heat-related deaths than would be expected without human-caused warming, researchers estimate in the July Environmental Research Letters.
Out-of-reach nutrients could help explain why life on Earth took so long to bounce back from the worst extinction of all time.
A debate over when the gap between North and South America closed has opened a rift in the scientific community.