Earth’s 10 Hottest Years on Record Are the Last 10
A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to ...
Water stored in the mantle for millions of years may be linked to continental volcanism
The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions ... the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed ...
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Scientists look to the Miocene for clues of what we might expect from global heating caused by fossil fuels
Fifty million years ago, in fact ... water use efficiency resulting from higher atmospheric CO2, rather than more rain, could actually explain the observed larger leaf sizes during the Miocene.