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New research involving Cambridge University has found evidence — locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas — of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may have upturned the Bronze Age Indus Civilization. The beginning of this arid period — starting at around 4,200 years ago and lasting for over...

Underwater waves deep below the ocean’s surface – some as tall as 500 metres – play an important role in how the ocean stores heat and carbon, according to new research. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and the University of California San Diego, quantified...

Many of the most violent outpourings of volcanic activity in history are fed by mushroom-shaped pillars of hot rock extending deep to Earth’s mantle, the region between the core and the crust we walk on. These ‘mantle plumes’ can be active for millions of years — leaving huge lava fields and chains of volcanic islands in...

Congratulations to Dr Carrie Soderman on being awarded the Geochemistry Group Postdoctoral Medal for her 2022 paper in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . The paper discusses the use of stable isotopes as new tools for investigating temperature and lithological heterogeneity in the mantle. “This paper showcases some of the...