ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News


Call for 'paradigm shift' to fight airborne spread of COVID-19 indoors

Posted: 13 May 2021 11:24 AM PDT

Researchers are calling for a 'paradigm shift' in combating airborne pathogens such as COVID-19, demanding universal recognition that infections can be prevented by improving indoor ventilation systems.

Discovery of new geologic process calls for changes to plate tectonic cycle

Posted: 11 May 2021 01:07 PM PDT

Geoscientists have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas of Earth's crust long before it should be geologically altered by known plate-boundary processes, highlighting the need to amend current understandings of the planet's tectonic cycle.