A new study, led by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa oceanographers, revealed that the ocean is acidifying even more rapidly below the surface in the open waters of the North Pacific near Hawai‘i. 

More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study. 

The subducted oceanic crusts are regarded as the major source of lower-mantle heterogeneity. However, the limited knowledge about the physical properties of major components in the subducted oceanic crusts prevents us from fully understanding the complex features of the related geophysical anomalies. Here, we comprehensively investigated the phase transition of (Al, H)-bearing stishovite at simultaneously high P-T conditions. These results contribute to our understanding on the complex depth distribution of the mid-lower mantle seismic scatterers.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar on 28 March 2025 showed unusually fast rupture velocity, which is known as a supershear rupture. The recent study of Felipe Vera from GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and coauthors confirms this finding and combines multiple methods to shed further light on the rupture process of this earthquake. According to the results, the Myanmar earthquake showed the highest rupture velocity worldwide in more than 20 years. The study is published in the journal The Seismic Record.