Secret of Australia’s volcanoes revealed
They bubbled rather than exploded, research shows.
Australia used to be quite a hotbed of volcanic activity. The east coast is littered with the remnants of hundreds of...
Earth Sciences
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Mapping the impact of soil salinity
Researchers track a big problem on a broad scale.
Turns out artificial intelligence can get its hands dirty: UK and German researchers have just used machine learning ...
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Fire and rain and the smoke that lingers
Scientists highlight the impact of huge pyrocumulonimbus clouds.
Wildfire-driven thunderstorms, such as those created in Australia a year ago, produce lingering impacts that may affe...
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How COVID-19 looks from above
Satellites show ‘dramatic’ changes during lockdown.
Scientists studying satellite images of the Earth have identified changes linked to COVID-19 lockdowns that may shed ...
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Can crystals tell us about volcanoes?
Scientists learn more from Kilauea’s debris.
Tiny crystals could provide new insights into past volcanic eruptions and help predict future ones, according to a ne...
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Continents ‘prone to destruction’ in infancy
Geologists model the origin of the cratonic mantle.
Digging deep into the planet’s past, Australian geologists have discovered why no trace remains of the continents for...
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Hawai’i has a hidden reservoir
Freshwater find raises hopes for volcanic islands worldwide
The Hawai’ian island chain has been a tropical holiday destination for decades, renowned for its warm waters, fine su...
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Conversation
We need to promote the right kind of fire
Changing patterns threaten species with extinction.
By Luke Kelly and Katherine Giljohann, University of Melbourne, Annabel Smith, University of Queensland, and Michael ...
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Science from the top of the world
Two months, 10 teams, troubling discoveries.
The science is in from an ambitious interdisciplinary expedition to Mt Everest – and the results are appropriately ch...
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How did mercury get down there?
Two new views on a very deep problem.
Mercury has been found in the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans, the 11,000-metre-deep Mariana Trench in the northwe...
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Volcano link to end of Triassic extinction
Researchers analyse molecular and isotopic evidence.
An Australian-led team of scientists has shed new light on the timing of one of the most catastrophic mass extinction...
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Mangrove forests act as plastic sinks
Study highlights ability to capture carbon and microplastics.
A new study highlights the heavy lifting marine ecosystems do in combatting environmental issues, finding that mangro...