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Ocean Sciences

News 9 September 2020

Camarones Chasqueadores Hacen Más Ruido en Aguas Cálidas

Conforme el océano se calienta debido al cambio climático, ruidos más fuertes podrían enmascarar los llamados de otros animales marinos usados para navegar, buscar alimento o pareja.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

News 31 August 2020

Wildfires Trigger Long-Term Permafrost Thawing

Researchers used satellite data to trace ground subsidence in a permafrost-rich region in eastern Siberia following a wildfire.

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Atmospheric Sciences

News 26 August 2020

Storms Interact but Rarely Merge into Bigger Tempests

The Fujiwhara effect—complex interactions between large storms nearby each other—can steer hurricanes and tropical storms but doesn’t typically create colossal tempests.

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Biogeosciences

News 26 August 2020

Los Costos Ecológicos de Remover las Plataformas Petroleras Mar Adentro en California

Las plataformas de perforación de petróleo- y gas-mar adentro son hábitats ricos para peces. Eliminarlas por completo resultaría en una pérdida del 95% de biomasa de peces, revela una nueva investigación.

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Geohealth

News 24 July 2020

Experiments Reveal How Permafrost Carbon Becomes Carbon Dioxide

Field samples from Alaska show how sunlight and iron convert permafrost carbon to carbon dioxide. Climate models ignore this process.

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Atmospheric Sciences

News 21 July 2020

Asteroid Impact, Not Volcanism, Likely Spelled Dinosaurs’ End

Using climate and habitat modeling, researchers show that solar dimming caused by an asteroid impact would have plunged the world into an “impact winter” and decimated dinosaur habitats.

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Space Science & Space Physics

News 14 July 2020

Ghostly Particles from the Sun Confirm Nuclear Fusion

Using the Borexino particle detector—located deep underground in Italy—researchers spot elusive neutrinos from the Sun’s CNO cycle.

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Ocean Sciences

News 9 July 2020

Larger Waves in Store as the Planet Warms

By the end of the 21st century, waves will have gotten larger in some ocean basins, particularly the Southern Ocean, climate modeling reveals.

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Atmospheric Sciences

News 8 July 2020

Niveles Altos de Contaminación en Chile se Relacionan Con Parrilladas de Hinchas del Fútbol

Misteriosos picos de contaminación—10 veces más altos que los niveles normales—ocurren en Santiago durante los partidos de fútbol televisados y son causados por decenas de miles de parrilladas, revelan nuevos resultados.

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Climate Change

News 30 June 2020

Chicxulub Impact Crater Hosted a Long-Lived Hydrothermal System

Chemical and mineralogical evidence of fluid flow—potentially conducive to microscopic life—was revealed in rock cores extracted from the crater’s “peak ring.”

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