Fifty years after the birth of modern plate tectonics theory, a group of researchers highlights three key examples of how our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our climate.

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A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

A new model accounting for the role of bubbles in air-sea gas exchanges suggests that ocean carbon uptake is more variable ...

Yet the isotopic signature of DBC in the ocean does not match what rivers alone supply. This discrepancy suggests there are ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi Chitimacha Choctaw Tribe has been losing land to the sea, which could hamper efforts to gain federal recognition.

Scientists call for better protection of Antarctica’s vulnerable seafloor ecosystem as ship traffic increases around the continent.

Scientists constructed a 100-year history of acidity in the Gulf of Maine. They expected coastal variability but were ...

Synthetic tracers are useful in defining the chemically-heterogeneous tropopause in chemical transport models, especially ...

An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a ...

Research spotlights are plain-language summaries of recent articles published in AGU’s suite of 24 journals.