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[:es] Subduction May Recycle Less Water Than Thought [:]

A new analysis of seismic data from the Middle America Trench suggests that previous calculations have vastly overestimated the total amount of water transported to the mantle worldwide.
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[:es] Antarctic Lava Yields Clues to Earth’s Past Magnetic Field [:]

A new analysis suggests that a widely accepted approximation of ancient magnetic field strength may be less accurate for the past 5 million years than previously thought.
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[:es] To Make Better Hurricane Models, Consider Air Pollution [:]

New research uses Hurricane Harvey as a case study to demonstrate the devastating power of aerosols to supercharge tropical storms.
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[:es] Do Uranus’s Moons Have Subsurface Oceans? [:]

Scientists tested whether a classic technique could detect subsurface oceans on the moons of Uranus. In this scenario, the planet’s oddball magnetic field offers a big advantage.
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[:es] Advancing AI for Earth Science: A Data Systems Perspective [:]

Tackling data challenges and incorporating physics into machine learning models will help unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to answer Earth science questions.
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[:es] Rethinking Darwin’s Theory of Atoll Formation [:]

Atolls have a long and complex history related to seafloor evolution, and Darwin’s model is only the beginning of the story.
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[:es] Successfully Simulating Atmospheric Gravity Waves [:]

These waves are key to moving energy from the troposphere to the thermosphere, but until now they haven’t been well described at high altitudes in computer models.
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[:es] The Bay of Bengal and the Curious Case of the Missing Rift [:]

In a classic detective story, clues from data new and old helped researchers reveal the puzzling chain of tectonic events that followed the Early Cretaceous split between India and Antarctica.
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[:es] Have We Got Dust All Wrong? [:]

Scientists are challenging conventional notions of how dust particles are aligned; “everything we’ve so far hypothesized about the impact of dust on the atmosphere might be misplaced.”