Earth and environmental science

Image of the earth and the highlighted region of the Antarctic region

The Road to Recovery: Is the Ozone Layer Finally Healing? Emergence of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer

Annotated by Robert Smith

Annotated on 12/15/2021

Originally published 07/15/2016

Plastic waste in the ocean - where does it all come from? Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

Annotated by Sabrina Powell

Annotated on 06/16/2021

Originally published 02/13/2015

Adobestock photo of a diamond in the rough.

Underground diamonds reveal unknown Earth history Primordial and recycled helium isotope signatures in the mantle transition zone

Annotated by Ananya Sen

Annotated on 03/15/2021

Originally published 08/16/2019

Photo by Mark Byzewski, image of Corral Bluffs

Did the dinosaur extinction lead to the evolution of larger mammals? Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

Annotated by Mary Colvard

Annotated on 07/07/2020

Originally published 10/25/2019

What's the major source of urban air pollution? Volatile chemical products emerging as largest petrochemical source of urban organic emissions

Annotated by Daniel R. Albert

Annotated on 10/25/2018

Originally published 02/16/2018

Bumblebees: Can't take the heat, won't leave the kitchen Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

Annotated by Catherine Sirois-Delisle, Peter Soroye, Jeremy T. Kerr

Annotated on 10/09/2018

Originally published 07/10/2015

Just a few degrees can change an ecosystem Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds and Mediterranean basin ecosystems

Annotated by Sarah Studer

Annotated on 07/26/2018

Originally published 10/28/2016

Keeping up with climate change: Species on the move Rapid range shifts of species associated with high levels of climate warming

Annotated by Christine Naspinski

Annotated on 03/29/2018

Originally published 08/11/2011

Coral reefs ride out the storm Hurricane Allen's impact on Jamaican coral reefs

Annotated by Bryan Nguyen

Annotated on 10/10/2017

Originally published 11/13/1981

Can eco-leadership save the planet? Beyond the roots of human inaction: Fostering collective effort toward ecosystem conservation

Annotated by Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Susan Koger …

Annotated on 04/21/2017

Originally published 04/21/2017

Sewer pipes party: Sulfate is not invited Reducing sewer corrosion through integrated urban water management

Annotated by Benay Akyon

Annotated on 07/14/2016

Originally published 08/15/2014

Human evolution likely encouraged by a dry climate Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia

Annotated by Ian Winkelstern

Annotated on 06/03/2016

Originally published 03/20/2015

Seeing the forest for the trees High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change

Annotated by Hilary Barker

Annotated on 05/25/2016

Originally published 11/15/2013

Midnight sun: Contributing to climate change? Sunlight controls water column processing of carbon in arctic fresh waters

Annotated by Sara Nason

Annotated on 05/20/2016

Originally published 08/22/2014

Western U.S. on the rise Ongoing drought-induced uplift in the western United States

Annotated by Erin Elisabeth Cunningham

Annotated on 02/19/2016

Originally published 09/26/2014

Take the heat Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change

Annotated by Desiree Stanley

Annotated on 11/13/2015

Originally published 05/23/2014

Does Earth have a sixth ocean? Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle

Annotated by Sam Haugland

Annotated on 07/10/2015

Originally published 06/13/2014

How unique are today's temperatures? A reconstruction of regional and global temperature for the past 11,300 years

Annotated by Rich Fiorella

Annotated on 06/24/2015

Originally published 03/28/2013

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Quake, rattle, and roll Enhanced remote earthquake triggering at fluid-injection sites in the midwestern United States

Annotated by Nicholas van der Elst

Annotated on 04/11/2014

Originally published 07/12/2013

Do clouds need passports? Dust and biological aerosols from the Sahara and Asia influence precipitation in the Western U.S.

Annotated by Stacey Brydges, Robert Pomeroy, Matthew J. Ruppel …

Annotated on 03/06/2014

Originally published 02/28/2013