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

Think the Amazon rainforest and the Sahara Desert are worlds apart? Think again. Scientists have only recently discovered the full scope of this incredible connection. 7 million tons, or 15% of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

They analyzed 22 global dust records in sediment cores, and found that since the Cenozoic era, dust deposition in major ocean ...

In a study published November 6 in the journal Science, researchers used space dust to make a 30,000-year timeline of ice ...

Researcher Valentin Bickel wanted to know just how intense winds can be on the red planet. Using data obtained by the Mars ...

A coal tip in Poland is transformed into a flower-filled meadow in a single season thanks to an innovative soil additive.

A new study has opened a window into the Arctic’s distant past by using cosmic dust to reconstruct nearly 30,000 years of sea ...