It turns out that the Earth has a ‘heartbeat’: a long, slow geological pulse that lasts for 27.5 million years; marked by clusters of major geological events. Events including: volcanic activity, mass extinctions, major tectonic plate movements and sea level increases. The bad news is that periodic surges in geologicalread more
A pair of rogue researchers with the University of Maryland are predicting that the upcoming solar cycle is going to be a doozy, a forecast that contradicts the commonly-accepted prediction that solar cycle 25 will be one of the quietest in over a century. After studying sunspot activity from data gatheredread more
The findings of a new study on the large impact crater that was found under Greenland’s Hiawatha Glacier in 2018 suggest that the impact that formed the 31-kilometer (19.3-mile) crater occurred quite recently (geologically speaking, that is), at a time when the region was covered in a mile-thick sheet of ice, makingread more
Researchers have discovered that as global warming causes the North Atlantic’s Gulf Stream to migrate further north, it blocks the flow of water flowing from the Arctic via the Labrador Current, a situation resulting in detrimental changes in the environment in the waters off of the North American Shelf. Typically,read more