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A volcano that rises straight from the ocean

This dramatic island formation is Seongsan Ilchulbong on Jeju Island, South Korea. The crater formed thousands of years ago after a powerful underwater volcanic eruption. Today the cliffs and green ...

High-resolution ocean models better capture Atlantic-driven European heat waves

Europe is struggling more and more with extreme heat in the summer. While climate change is the main reason for this increase, what specific physical mechanisms cause a heat wave? One important driver ...
Interesting Engineering

Ancient sea ice salt may have helped lock Earth into global deep freeze

A new modeling study suggests that salt left behind on sea ice could have made the planet even brighter and colder as global glaciation began.

New Cosmological Model Suggests Half the Universe is 1.37 Billion Years Older Than the Rest, Authored by independent researcher Raghu Kulkarni

For decades, the Standard Cosmological Model has operated on a single, foundational assumption: the Big Bang happened everywhere at exactly the same time. Today, a newly released theoretical paper ...
Anthropocene Magazine

Contrails are a climate puzzle written across the sky

As airlines test new routes and researchers refine models, contrails are shifting from an afterthought of flight to a potential tool for cutting the carbon footprint of aviation.

Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s

Behind the long-term climate projections that affect our lives sits one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the modern era.
The Daily World

Ocean City drainage district commissioners appointed

Stan Sturgeon, Michelle Wiley and Jon Schleiger have been appointed as the very first commissioners of the newly formed Ocean City drainage district by the Grays Harbor Board of County Commissioners ...
Science Daily

A hidden force beneath the Atlantic ripped open a 500 kilometer canyon

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that dwarfs even the Grand Canyon. Known as the King’s Trough Complex, this ...

New generation of climate models sheds first light on long-standing Pacific puzzle

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...
The New York Times

From Fishing Nets to Furniture: Turning Ocean Plastic Into Usable Products

A brother-and-sister team in Spain started a sustainable business model recycling old and damaged nets into stadium seating and decorations. Credit... Supported by Visuals and Text by Lena Mucha For ...
SciELO

First Record of Miocene Polychaete Cirratulids in the Atlantic Ocean from the Pirabas Formation of Brazil: A MicroCT Approach

A new record of the cirratulid polychaete Diplochaetetes mexicanus Wilson, 1986 from the of Miocene Pirabas Formation outcrops (Burdigalian to Langhian) is documented in the context of the ...