What’s creating thousands of craters off the California coast?
Researchers have launched a fleet of underwater probes to find out
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New deal won’t prevent 5G communication networks from interfering with weather forecasts
Noise standard strikes middle ground between proposals -
A massive experiment in Taiwan aims to reveal landslides’ surprising effect on the climate
Landslides are reactors for chemical weathering that can both draw down and emit carbon -
Rainy, with a chance of rockfalls: New landslide forecasting system debuts in Rio
Landslide “nowcasts” could give residents of Rio de Janeiro extra time to escape disaster -
World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles
2.7-million-year-old core chronicles switch from 40,000- to 100,000-year ice age cycles -
Ancient soil from secret Greenland base suggests Earth could lose a lot of ice
Samples, lost for decades, rediscovered in Danish freezer -
Some spots on Earth are too hostile for life
Studies of Ethiopian hot spring ponds and Antarctica’s deserts identify the limits of life -
How the world’s largest geode grew to half the size of a small bedroom
The giant Pulpí Geode formed in hot mineral-rich water between 2 million and 60,000 years ago -
Underwater volcano belched explosive bubbles larger than a stadium
Secrets of Bogoslof’s long 2017 eruption teased out through low-frequency sound -
How fast will seas rise? A dying Greenland glacier holds clues
Scientists watch a warming ocean melt and fracture the ice -
Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones. Now, researchers think they know why
Study could solve long-standing mystery -
This sulfur-spewing Russian volcano is turning sunsets purple
Sulfur in the stratosphere splits light to make a violet glow -
Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe
Most of “Greater Adria” is now trapped in Earth’s mantle, but some of its rocks ended up high in the Alps -
Ancient farmers irreversibly altered Earth’s face by 3000 years ago
Survey of 255 archaeologists suggests an earlier start to the Anthropocene -
Shock and thaw? Earth’s oldest asteroid impact may have helped lift the planet out of a deep freeze
Researchers say 2.23-billion-year-old Yarrabubba impact vaporized ice sheets, creating a steamy greenhouse -
‘Mystery’ volcano that cooled the ancient world traced to El Salvador
The 539 C.E. eruption triggered crop failure, famine, and disease
