Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on August 31, 2022.According to official data launched Thursday, the Brazilian Amazon recorded its worst month of August for forest fires since 2010, with an...
The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016. Credit: European Space Agency. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESA ,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Wikimedia CommonsClosure of the Neo-Tethys Sea and the subsequent formation...
Credit: UnsplashPollution warnings were put in place on dozens of beaches in England and Wales after untreated sewage was released into the sea around the coast.Official data reveals a range of discharges on the 15th of this month, which Southern Water claims are to protect residences and companies.The contamination follows a phase of heavy...
Credit: UnsplashSpecialists say that vegetables and fruit in stores will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry climate impacts crops.Carrots, Potatoes, Brussels sprouts, apples, and onions are prone to be the most affected.Several locations of the UK have seen extremely low rain in 2022, and parts of England remain in...
Thousands of mysterious holes have been discovered on the ocean floor not far from the Californian coast.Thousands of secret holes have been found on the seafloor after deep-sea surveys.The Earth's oceans are anything, however, explored. According to reports, humans have managed to explore regarding 5% of the ocean floor. The remaining 95% of the...
According to new research, food production is already one of the biggest stressors to our planet, but it has made substantially more challenging by the interaction of Earth system processes.Earth system procedures refer to the natural activities that maintain the planet in a habitable and also useful state. This includes procedures occurring in the...
Credit: UnsplashAfter weeks of scorching heat and dry conditions in the majority of the UK, with drought announced in parts of England, it seems that a big downpour is what we need.However, the heavy rainfall and thunderstorms predicted by the Met Office this week might be a threat.Researchers are warning that the storms can...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on influences, adaptation, and vulnerability acknowledges that climate modification effects and dangers are becoming increasingly complex and more challenging to manage. Multiple weather dangers will happen together, and multiple climatic and non-climatic dangers will interact, resulting in worsening overall threats and...
According to most geophysical models, earthquakes should not happen more than 300 kilometers beneath Earth's surface. However, they commonly do, an event that has confounded seismologists for years.Imperfections such as the inclusions (dark flecks) in this diamond reveal that tectonic slabs can carry water deep into Earth's mantle. EVAN SMITH/© 2021 GIAResearchers suggest...
Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth’s inner core oscillates, contradicting previously held beliefs that it consistently rotates at a faster rate than the planet’s surface.A groundbreaking study by USC researchers challenges the previous model that the Earth's inner core rotates continuously faster than the planet's surface.According to their research, published in Science Advances,...
