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For years, researchers looking at seafloor sediments would find bits of black carbon along with organic carbon strewn across the ocean floor, but they couldn’t say exactly where it originated. 

Researchers from Tohoku University have discovered a new petit-spot volcano at the oldest section of the Pacific Plate.

As the planet warms due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a solution for drawing down that carbon – or at least a major part of it – lies silently below us.

Analyzing decades of records, the researchers discovered that the accompanying rainfall tended to be more severe after a hurricane had abated to the category of a tropical storm.

Himalayan glaciers have largely retreated, and lakes now cover the area where the glacier tongue was in earlier times.