Researchers set out to explore one of the ocean’s biggest mysteries: a kind of sinkhole in the ocean supply, known as a ‘blue hole’. Blue holes are enormous caves beneath the sea wall cut out by an unknown force, although scientists believe that there may be sober water sources in …
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Researchers have successfully revived dormant microbes trapped in an apparently lifeless area of the seabed for more than 100 million years. A team of scientists from Japan and the United States was looking to see if microscopic life survives in less hospitable conditions below the sea floor of the Pacific …
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Columns of dust are a natural phenomenon, part of the Earth’s nutrient cycle. They occur when high-speed winds pick up small dry particles from the Earth’s surface and transport them over long distances. Every summer, columns of dust from the Sahara desert in Africa cross the Atlantic Ocean. They are …
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Earth’s oceans simmer with heat trapped by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. But a patch of water in the North Atlantic stubbornly resists the trend and actually drops the temperature. This ‘cold drop’ has been a topic of interest to climatologists since it was first seen in 2015. Unfortunately, the …
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With NASA slated to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa sometime in the next decade, researchers are increasingly confident that the ocean on the celestial satellite “might be habitable.” Speaking at the Goldschmidt 2020 Conference earlier this month, NASA researchers said they have developed a model that shows that Europe, the sixth …
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