Kate Wheeling is a freelance journalist based in Santa Barbara, Calif. She writes about the environment, climate change, energy, and our relationship with the natural world. She was previously a staff writer at Pacific Standard, covering both environmental and criminal justice. Her work has also appeared in Outside, The New Republic, Medium, and elsewhere. She has a master’s degree in science journalism and a bachelor’s in behavioral neuroscience.
A millennial-scale ocean simulation indicates that oxygen gains in the deep ocean may offset oxygen losses in the upper water layer under a protracted climate change scenario.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Researchers used an up-to-date global magnetic anomaly data set to track the history of magnetic field reversals and obtain more accurate estimates of tectonic spreading rates.Read More »Mathematical Geophysics
New methods that help researchers understand the decision-making processes of neural networks could make the machine learning tool more applicable for the geosciences.Read More »Mathematical Geophysics
Forest degradation may be as widespread as deforestation in the Amazon, but its impact on energy, carbon, and water fluxes is less well understood.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Researchers established a relatively low cost method that could help countries with limited monitoring capabilities measure particulate pollution in their skies.Read More »Geohealth
Researchers have been modeling effects of the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum on coastal forests in California and Oregon since it arrived on the West Coast 3 decades ago. Read More »Biogeosciences
Las herramientas desarrolladas para la ciencia del clima pueden ayudar a los investigadores a predecir los dipolos ecológicos: los efectos contrastados del clima en poblaciones separadas por miles de kilómetros.Read More »Biogeosciences
Researchers are calling for a closer look at nutrient cycling in tropical and low-nutrient estuaries, which have long been overlooked in the scientific literature.Read More »Climate Change
Billions of people rely on water resources that originate across borders. New research evaluates how climate change and increased water demand could affect future water stress.Read More »
