Scientists at Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability show that even popular conservation programs can harbor hidden costs, often for vulnerable populations. Returning…
Monsoons can have a significant impact on human populations all around the world, bringing heavy rainfall associated with flooding and mudslides that can damage crops…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – the time NASA’s SnowEx campaign hits the skies and ground of the world’s snowy places, measuring…
With Christmas just past, the red and white of this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image bring a festive feel to this image featuring Tromsø – the largest…
Will climate change lead to more iron fertilization in the ocean? Sea creatures, whether large or small, need nutrients. The supply mechanism delivering these nutrients…
First ever study of how North America’s four main weather regimes are affected by polar vortex strength. Winter weather patterns in North America are dictated…
Method concentrates radionuclides in a small portion of a nuclear plant’s wastewater, allowing the rest to be recycled. Nuclear power continues to expand globally, propelled,…
University of Oklahoma geoscientists document the role of atmospheric dust on marine ecosystems 300 million years ago. Dust plays a crucial role in the life…
Scientists have captured the birth of a high-speed ice feature for the first time on top of a Russian glacier. In a remote archipelago of…
New study provides the first evidence that thinning ice shelves around Antarctica are causing more ice to move from the land into the sea. A…
All of a sudden a tiny NASA-funded satellite, one of many passengers aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, shot into the sky on a mission to…
The Earth’s inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped, according to new research that could help scientists better understand forces that affect the…
New technology could open the door to seafloor earthquake monitoring. An international team of geoscientists led by Caltech has used fiber optic communications cables stationed…
Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite revealed that an explosion in a natural gas well in Ohio in February 2018 released more than 50,000 tons…
Humankind will need to harness carbon capture and storage technologies to help keep global warming to 2 degrees C or less. New research shows that…
The researchers combined data across North America and Europe using a meta-analysis, a way of aggregating results from multiple studies to increase statistical strength. They…
Despite having completed its mission in orbit over six years ago, ESA’s GOCE gravity mapper continues to yield new insights into our planet. Thanks to…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea. ‘Algae bloom’ is the term used to describe the…
