The Tonga Eruption Is Still Revealing New Volcanic Dangers
[ad_1] It’s clear that Hunga involved an unusually explosive recipe that may not be easily replicated. For about a month, the eruption had progressed as expected—moderately violent, with gas and…
What This Fearsome Weapon Reveals About Early Americans
[ad_1] Perhaps, as Davis and other archeologists suggest, those people came from northeast Asia by boat, moving south along the Pacific coastline and setting up camps along the way. “The…
Video Games Need Better Dinosaurs. Paleontologists Can Help
[ad_1] The most marine-centered event at GSA was also one of the loudest voices in the chorus for pro-ammonite games. The final night of the conference, I stumbled up to…
Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running…
The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
[ad_1] Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound collection of bones hints at an even richer past.…
These Algorithms Are Hunting for an EV Battery Mother Lode
[ad_1] “These things are hard to tip over,” geologist Wilson Bonner assures me as the four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle he’s piloting tilts suddenly sideways, pitching me toward the churned up mud…
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
[ad_1] Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a climate that can support ice. One study used leaf…
Goats and Sheep Are Brawling in the Rockies. Blame Glacial Melt
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In one corner, there is the agile climber with steak-knife-like horns. In the other…
A New Tool for Eruption Forecasting: Carbon-Catching Drones
[ad_1] She and her team flew these drones while they were standing inside the crater to compare faraway atmospheric measurements with those closer to the source. They also used traditional…
‘We Are the Asteroid’: The Case for Hope Amid Climate Fears
[ad_1] Earth’s atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that natural balance, but there’s…
What Is a Wetland Worth?
[ad_1] Annie Proulx was not able to travel for her book on wetlands. She had imagined journeys into the disappearing Siberian mires and the English fens, which are already mostly…
Is Coal Mining Increasing East Kentucky’s Flood Risk?
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal—an extractive…
Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
[ad_1] “Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and how it’s changed through time,” said Hazen. For that…
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
[ad_1] The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the…