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Geohealth

News 5 July 2019

Antibiotics Are Flooding Earth’s Rivers

The drugs can lead to drug-resistant bacteria and deadly infections.

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Atmospheric Sciences

News 28 June 2019

Latest Climate Model Points to Hotter Earth

The model’s dire forecast matches those of other leading models.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 3 June 2019

Afghanistan’s Blob Hunters

How a first-of-its-kind team of Afghan scientists and engineers helped make a monolithic discovery.

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Geohealth

News 28 May 2019

Hiroshima Bomb Created Asteroid Impact–Like Glass

The glass rained from the sky as the bomb annihilated the Japanese city.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 17 May 2019

When Water Met Rock

Geologists discover rocks bearing the earliest known evidence of water interacting with rock on Earth’s surface.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 10 May 2019

The Blob Causing Earthquakes

Geophysicists discover that a “blob” of rock sinking into the mantle is the force triggering earthquakes in the Hindu Kush.

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Geology & Geophysics

Feature 25 April 2019

The Search for the Severed Head of the Himalayas

To unearth the very first sediments to erode from the Himalayas, a team of scientists drilled beneath the Bay of Bengal.

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

Feature 1 March 2019

Isotope Geochemists Glimpse Earth’s Impenetrable Interior

Painstaking measurements of isotopes and their relative abundance in rocks have illuminated the hidden inner Earth and our planet’s origins and shadowy past for much of the preceding century.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

News 28 November 2018

Ancient Romans Polluted Their Lakes Just Like We Do Today

Sediments from a lake in Switzerland reveal that ancient Romans triggered dead zones caused by the runoff of nutrients. Sound familiar?

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Biogeosciences

News 1 November 2018

How Did Life Recover After Earth’s Worst-Ever Mass Extinction?

Ocean animals at the top of the food chain recovered first after a cataclysm at the end of the Permian period. The extinction was triggered by events resembling the changes brewing in today's oceans.

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