CryoSat Mission Reveals Massive Ice Loss From Glaciers in Alaska and Asia
As our climate warms, ice melting from glaciers around the world is one of main causes of sea-level rise. As well as being a major…
As our climate warms, ice melting from glaciers around the world is one of main causes of sea-level rise. As well as being a major…
Over the past 1.2 million years, marine life was repeatedly extinguished in low-oxygen ‘dead zones’ in the North Pacific Ocean during warm interglacial climates. An…
Launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UN calls on countries to meet commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of land. Facing the triple threat…
Shortly before Jakobshavn Isbræ, a tidewater glacier in Greenland, calves massive chunks of ice into the ocean, there’s a sudden change in the slushy collection…
The Permian Basin, located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, is the largest oil- and gas-producing region in the U.S. The oilfield operations emit…
A new study of historical carbon dioxide levels stresses urgent action is needed to avoid prehistoric levels of climate change. The international team of scientists,…
A large group of iconic fossils widely believed to shed light on the origins of many of Earth’s animals and the communities they lived in…
Scientists have uncovered a summertime climate pattern in and around the Arctic that could drive co-occurrences of European heatwaves and large-scale wildfires with air pollution…
For two weeks in June 2020, a massive dust plume from Saharan Africa crept westward across the Atlantic, blanketing the Caribbean and Gulf Coast states…
A ship’s container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer cartridges washing up everywhere from the coast of Florida to northern Norway,…
New findings from scientists of Bremen will aid in the further development of biogeochemical models that include the marine nitrogen cycle. In the deep waters…
NASA scientists have studied 17 years of gravity observations of our planet to understand how the global water cycle is changing. The rate at which…
The “young” and well-preserved crater helps scientists understand cratering processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. Most asteroids that survive an encounter with…
An enormous iceberg has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, lying in the Weddell Sea, in Antarctica. The iceberg, dubbed A-76,…
Research team led by the University of Göttingen discovers crater floor sagging from bowl-shaped volcanic ash layer. The almost 15-million-year-old Nördlinger Ries is an asteroid…
Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth’s climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, new land mammals evolved, tropical forests expanded, giant insects and…
As Earth’s climate changes, the International Space Station watches from above, helping to provide unique insights to keep our planet safe. On Earth, we often…
New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) climate scientists and collaborators shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region…