NASA: 2021 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Is 12th-Lowest on Record
Sea ice in the Arctic appears to have hit its annual minimum extent on September 16, after waning in the 2021 Northern Hemisphere spring and…
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Burrowing Beach Mice Seek Shelter at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Coral Reef Biodiversity Predicted To Shuffle Rather Than Collapse As Climate Changes With Ocean Warming and Acidification
NASA’s Delta-X Mission Helps With Disaster Response in Wake of Hurricane Ida
Deadwood Releasing 10.9 Gigatons of Carbon Every Year – More Than All Fossil Fuel Emissions Combined
Australian Wildfires Triggered Massive Algal Blooms in Southern Ocean – Raises New Questions About Oceanic Carbon Uptake
Strategies To Meet Future Water Demands and Improve Drought Resiliency Identified in Upper Missouri River Basin Study
Exploring Earth From Space: Maharloo Lake, Iran [Video]
Hundreds of Cape Fur Seals Entangled in Fishing Lines and Nets Every Year – Causing Horrific Injuries and Painful Deaths
Coral Reef Cover, Biodiversity, and Fish Catches Have Declined by Half Since the 1950s
Coral reefs around the world are under threat because of climate change, overfishing, pollution, and more. Now, researchers reporting in the journal One Earth today (September…
Fire Encroaching on Giant Sequoias – California’s Natural Treasures Threatened
In the midst of another brutal fire season, several of California’s natural treasures have also been threatened. In the midst of another brutal fire season that has…
What’s Going On With Earth’s Ozone Hole?
World governments agreed in the late 1980s to protect Earth’s ozone layer by phasing out ozone-depleting substances emitted by human activities, under the Montreal Protocol….
California Continues To Burn – More Than 7000 Wildfires, Burning Over 900,000 Hectares
While wildfires are a natural part of California’s landscape, a severe drought, coupled with extreme temperatures, have sustained several major fires for much of August….
Unusual Snowfall in Greenland – “A Dramatic End to a Season of Extreme Events”
The remnants of Hurricane Larry dropped abundant snowfall on Greenland just as the summer melt season was coming to an end. Hurricanes are known for…
Climate Change Likely To Abruptly Impact Algae in the Global Ocean
Global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity ‘break point’ boundaries in the oceans – according to…
An Ancient Lineage: Indian Wolf Among World’s Most Endangered and Distinct Wolves
Scientists Sequence Indian Wolf Genome for 1st Time The Indian wolf could be far more endangered than previously recognized, say first scientists to sequence its…
What Lies Beneath: Volcanic Secrets Revealed – “We’ve Been Misled, Geologically Deceived”
Lava samples have revealed a new truth about the geological make-up of the Earth’s crust and could have implications for volcanic eruption early warning systems,…
Antarctic Air Samples Reveal 70% Increase in Atmospheric Hydrogen Over the Past 150 Years
Earth system scientists at UCI studied air trapped in compacted layers of Antarctic ice and snow to come up with some answers and a few…