当地震引起滑坡、泥石流或侵蚀时，它可以通过引入颗粒更大的沉积物来改变附近湖泊的组成，导致沉积物堆积更快，并影响碳封存。堆积在湖底的沉积物就像一个历史档案，记录了湖泊的生物、物理和化学变化，以及它们如何影响 硅藻 ...

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...

Chemical signatures of marine organisms reveal that seasonal sea ice, not a massive ice shelf, persisted in the southern ...

Scientists use a large suite of simulations with an established climate model to predict the Pacific Decadal Oscillation up ...

Federal flood measurements often don’t match what people see in their communities. Scientists have created a hyperlocal ...

Warming of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) subtropical lower stratosphere is due to slowing of Brewer-Dobson Circulation, thus ...

A new model shows how coal seam gas extraction causes land to sink by linking groundwater loss and coal shrinkage, helping ...

Data captured by the Emirates Mars Mission reveal that clouds are typically thicker during Martian nighttime than daytime.

Some of the iron emitted by industrial activity in East Asia is carried by winds into the North Pacific, where it nourishes ...

Corals can be used as a proxy: They build themselves in alternating dark and light bands that, like trees, correspond to ...

A bottom-up modeling approach could bring scientists closer to understanding communities of microbes in the atmosphere.

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