Earth Science

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6-May-2026

How the rise of continents may have set the stage for life on Earth

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The rise of Earth’s continents may have tuned ancient oceans to just the right boron concentration for life to emerge, according to a new research study.

Journal

Terra Nova

6-May-2026

   

Video and audio monitoring of the Arctic seafloor captures rarely seen phenomena: fish swimming backwards, narwhal calls nearby, and a beautiful array of deep-sea dwellers and tide-driven "marine snow”

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Video and audio monitoring of the Arctic seafloor captures rarely seen phenomena: fish swimming backwards, narwhal calls nearby, and a beautiful array of deep-sea dwellers and tide-driven "marine snow”

Journal

PLOS One

6-May-2026

 

Introducing ecotech, nature’s innovation accelerator

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The field unites principles in biology, engineering and earth sciences to develop scalable solutions to urgent environmental, social and economic challenges.

Journal

Science Advances

6-May-2026

How trees in urban areas are key to cooling down a warmer world

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Planting new forests may be a low-cost way to combat warming temperatures in urban areas, suggests a new study.

Journal

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

6-May-2026

 

New long-necked dinosaur found in Northeast Brazil was a close relative of a European species

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dasosaurus tocantinensis was about 20 meters long and lived approximately 120 million years ago. Its closest relative lived in present-day Spain.

Journal

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Funder

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

6-May-2026

Aircraft measurements reveal surprisingly strong Southern Ocean biological productivity

National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The biological productivity of the Southern Ocean in the summertime is substantially greater than many previous estimates have suggested, according to new airborne research.

Journal

Nature Geoscience

6-May-2026

Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22-28 percent of the Amazon, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published in Nature. Without additional deforestation, by contrast, such large-scale changes would likely occur only at much higher warming levels of around 3.7–4°C.

Journal

Nature