By DAVID NIELD, Science Alert
For most of life on Earth, oxygen is essential, and sunlight is usually needed to produce that oxygen. But in an exciting twist, researchers have caught a common, ocean-dwelling microbe breaking all the rules. Continue reading Microbes in The Ocean Depths Can Make Oxygen Without Sun. This Discovery Could Be Huge
By Sofie Bates, SciTech Daily
New observations from research aircraft indicate that the Southern Ocean absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases, confirming that it is a strong carbon sink and an important buffer for the effects of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading Study Confirms Southern Ocean Is Absorbing Carbon – Important Buffer for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN
Every day, thousands of fishing boats around the world drag huge weighted nets across the seafloor, ensnaring everything in their wake and destroying marine habitats. Continue reading The woman saving seahorses from ‘annihilation fishing’
By Molly Taft, Gizmodo
The world dumps some 17.6 billion pounds (8 billion kilograms) of plastic into the ocean every year—and now, you can check out how all that trash moves around. NASA released an animation showing shifting plastic concentrations in the world’s oceans over an 18-month period, the first research of its kind to map plastics on such a global scale for such a long time. Continue reading Striking NASA Animation Reveals the Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Every time new climate research is published, news headlines are posted or tweets are shared, a giant steel box perched on a granite plain in the Australian state of Tasmania will be recording it all. Continue reading A giant ‘black box’ will gather all climate data for future civilizations to learn from
By JOE HERNANDEZ, NPR
Emergency officials are still trying to contain a major oil spill off the coast of Southern California that dumped more than 120,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean, some of which has washed ashore. Continue reading The California oil spill could endanger birds and sea life for years, experts say
BY CRAIG WELCH, National Geographic
Joe Biden’s father sold used cars, steeping the future president in the world of combustion engines. The younger Biden washed vehicles on weekends, borrowed a Chrysler off the lot to drive to the prom, and hit automobile auctions to help stock his dad’s dealership. President Biden still owns the green ’67 Corvette his father gave him as a wedding gift, which he told Car and Driver magazine has “a rear-axle ratio that really gets up and goes.” Continue reading Has the electric car’s moment arrived at last?
We hear a lot of doom and gloom regarding the health of our planet, but Bill Pekny says the news is not all bad. Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, he shares some encouraging bright spots. Continue reading Some Good News This Earth Day: A Few Ways the Natural World Is Improving
By CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE
Findings allow us to trace how minerals from the surface are drawn down into the mantle.
Diamonds that formed deep in the Earth’s mantle contain evidence of chemical reactions that occurred on the seafloor. Probing these gems can help geoscientists understand how material is exchanged between the planet’s surface and its depths.
Continue reading Diamonds That Formed Deep in the Earth’s Mantle Contain Evidence of Deep-Earth Recycling Processes
By CHLOEE WEINER, NPR
A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth. Continue reading New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit
