Madrid Snowbound – Stunning Satellite Image Captures Heaviest Snowfall in 50 Years
Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on January 11, 2021, at 12:14 CET, this image of Madrid in Spain appears to have been taken in…
Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on January 11, 2021, at 12:14 CET, this image of Madrid in Spain appears to have been taken in…
Global team of scientists, including UCLA’s Daniel Blumstein, points to environmental, population and political challenges. Without immediate and drastic intervention, humans face a “ghastly future”…
The lack of snow cover in December left Japan’s iconic mountain looking a little different than usual. Even as record snowfall has clobbered Japan’s western…
Even with the COVID-19-related small dip in global carbon emissions due to limited travel and other activities, the ocean temperatures continued a trend of breaking…
Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971. Between January 7–9, 2021, a moist, low-pressure weather system over the ocean collided with…
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away. Sandwiched between the Mississippi River and Bayou…
Economic and social shutdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to noticeable changes in Earth’s environment, at least for the short term. NASA…
In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms. The Goldilocks zone typically refers to…
Big animals have the power to change the face of our planet: they sculpt woodlands, power ecosystems and can even help to fertilize the interior…
Rising above the clouds and the Sea of Okhotsk, the uninhabited Atlasov Island appears as a distinctive dark landform from the view of an astronaut…
After two years of quiet, Kilauea, Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano, is erupting again. In the early days of the volcano’s latest eruption, water…
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous today, with microplastic particles from disposable goods found in natural environments throughout the globe, including Antarctica. But how those particles move…
Popocatépetl volcano—the name is Aztec for “smoking mountain” — is one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes. The glacier-clad stratovolcano has been erupting since January 2005,…
A new study led by researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, and Bath helps to shed light on the winter weather we may soon…
Westerlies moved poleward in the past, as they are doing now. The westerlies — or westerly winds — play an important role in weather and…
Throughout 2020, the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas endured several notable weather and climate events. In spring, a persistent heatwave over Siberia provoked the rapid…
Analysis of Steamboat Geyser also finds the relationship between column height and reservoir depth. When Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser — which shoots water higher…
New Columbia Engineering study — first to investigate the long-term effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks in drylands — finds that soil moisture exerts a negative…