They analyzed 22 global dust records in sediment cores, and found that since the Cenozoic era, dust deposition in major ocean basins increased stepwise, with sharp rises aligned with Northern ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing ...

Trees growing atop granite in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains rely on nutrients from windborne dust more than on nutrients from the underlying bedrock. This surprising finding resulted from a ...

The NASA spacecraft launches Thursday (July 14) on a SpaceX rocket. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new NASA mission will watch ...

Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 42% since 1979, when regular satellite monitoring began. As the ice grows thinner and recedes, more water is exposed to sunlight. Ice reflects sunlight but ...

Discover how tracing space dust in Arctic seafloor sediment can help us understand how ice coverage changed over millennia, ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Few places on Earth would be as miserable to live as the Sahara Desert, which occupies the northern third of Africa. It is a desolate place filled with nothing but sand. Winds whip that sand into huge ...

For decades, scientists have known that tropical places like Hawaii, with lush landscapes and vegetation, nutritionally benefit from the dust that blows from Asia. However, results of a new study -- ...