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Ocean heat, not air temperature, may decide Antarctica’s fate as new models predict widespread ice shelf loss by 2300.

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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...

When a satellite’s time ends, agencies may decide to send it further away to an altitude of 36,000 km above the Earth’s ...

A new review reveals how tiny shell-building plankton quietly drive carbon cycling and influence global climate change.

Beneath miles of pressure and darkness, NASA is exploring deep-sea environments that mimic the frozen oceans of moons like Europa and Enceladus, searching for answers about where life could exist ...

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Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials.” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

Marine heatwaves can jam the ocean’s natural carbon conveyor belt, preventing carbon from reaching the deep sea. Researchers studying two major heatwaves in the Gulf of Alaska found that plankton ...