A scientific study shows that iron bound to Sahara dust, which blows west over the Atlantic, has properties that change with distance traveled and is used by certain marine and terrestrial beings. It is the so-called bioreactive iron.
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Photosynthesis, a process that requires sunlight, can occur even in extremely low light conditions, according to an international study that examined the development of Arctic microalgae at the end of the polar night.
Scientists find that more than 60% of the world's cities have more rainfall than surrounding rural areas and cities with taller buildings receive more rainfall than others with shorter buildings due to wind convergence.
It has been more than two weeks since Hurricane Ernesto formed, and as of today, the NHC does not forecast any new named storms within 7 days of peak hurricane season. This period would be the longest streak without the formation of a new named storm at the peak of hurricane season.
La Niña has been making her appearance during the summer of 2024, when she was expected, at least, as a weak to moderate phenomenon for the second part of 2024. Now it seems that the waters of the central equatorial Pacific are cooling at a rate that will make La Niña a reality very soon.
At the climatological peak of tropical cyclone activity, the Atlantic is relatively inactive with only two tropical waves and one of them could become a tropical depression or tropical storm as it heads toward the Caribbean and could subsequently impact southwestern Mexico.
An atmospheric river brought heavy rains to southern Alaska in early August 2024, triggering a large landslide and tsunami at Pedersen Lagoon.
New research from the University of Liverpool has revealed how an underwater avalanche grew more than 100 times in size, causing a huge trail of destruction as it cut 2,000km across the Atlantic Ocean seabed off the north-west coast of Africa and the north of the Canary Islands.
Researchers have discovered an unexpected increase in the abundance of two variants of water molecules in the mesosphere of Venus. This phenomenon challenges our understanding of the history of the water of Venus and the possibility that it was once habitable in the past.
This question is asked every time a deadly tornado outbreak hits the continental US or other parts of the world. Now it has gone viral after the sinking of a luxury superyacht with 22 people on board, which sank in Porticello, Sicily, due to a possible waterspout in a very warm Mediterranean.
Scientists have been watching closely as the Pacific Ocean is shifting from the warmer-than-normal conditions of El Niño earlier this year, 2024, to the cooler-than-normal conditions of La Niña in late summer. But, as chance would have it, something similar could be brewing this summer in the Atlantic Ocean.
Megatsunamis are one of the most potentially damaging phenomena on Earth and can be generated by various causes, mainly by marine or terrestrial earthquakes. However, under certain conditions they can be generated by other causes. One has now been studied that generated waves of up to 200 m.
The X-ray detectors on the European space probe Solar Orbiter (SolO) recorded a large and intense explosion of category X14 on 23 July 2024. Could it affect Earth?
Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Valencia have documented the largest leak of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, recorded to date in an oil well in the Kazakhstan area.
Air from the stratosphere often sinks into the troposphere due to meandering jet streams and can generate a high concentration of hydroxyl radicals with important consequences.
The slowdown of ocean currents, such as the AMOC, can generate great impacts on the redistribution of heat on Earth, which is excess in the tropics and missing at the poles, but it can also alter the CO₂ sinks in the oceans.
El Niño is a weather pattern characterised by warming of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean caused by weakening equatorial trade winds blowing from the western coast of South America to the Philippines and Indonesia. This pattern affects winters in certain areas of the Earth
The Deep Space Network's Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they passed safely by Earth in June 2024.
Hurricane Beryl breaks other records in the Atlantic: it became the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record on 2 July, 2024, after destructively touching and sweeping through some of the Windward Islands, and is the most intense hurricane in terms of to sustained winds for the month of July.
In certain environments, the rate at which temperature builds up over years will increase, which will likely influence the way some organisms grow and develop.