NASA Scientists Reveal a New Mode of Ice Loss in Greenland
A new NASA study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that during Greenland’s hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier…
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Scientists Review Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity
Scientists review the fundamental physical process behind space weather events that are linked to human activity and discusses the observations of their impacts. Our Cold…
Van Allen Probes Reveal Man-Made Barrier Shrouding Earth
A newly published study details the anthropogenic effects on the space environment, which started in the late 19th century and reached their peak in the…
New Study Shows Warmer Temperatures May Increase Emissions of Carbon Dioxide from Alaskan Tundra
A newly published study reveals that warmer temperatures and thawing soils may be driving an increase in emissions of carbon dioxide from Alaskan tundra to…
NASA Shows Current Sierra Snowpack Bigger Than Last Four Years Combined
A major source of water for San Francisco and California’s Central Valley is the Tuolumne River Basin in California’s Sierra Nevada. New data from NASA…
New Model Helps Solve the Mystery of the Arctic’s Green Ice
A team of researchers is using a new model to explain the blooms of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice. In 2011, researchers observed something…
New Research Examines the Intersection of Weather and Climate
A new study probes the global interactions between weather and climate, revealing the seasonal “fingerprints” of Arctic sea ice, El Nino, and other climate phenomena….
MIT Study Suggests Complex Life on Earth Began 2.33 Billion Years Ago
In a newly published study scientists from MIT reveal evidence that eukaryotes — the domain of life comprising animals, plants, and protists — were present…
New NASA Research Identifies Pathway for Greenland Meltwater to Reach Ocean
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps…
MIT Study Predicts Frequency of Heavy Precipitation with Global Warming
Researchers from MIT reveal that extreme precipitation events should become more frequent as the Earth’s climate warms over this century. On December 11, 2014, a…
NASA’s New Global View of CO2, Critical Step for Carbon-Cycle Science
NASA’s new global view of carbon dioxide builds on the agency’s previous satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system…
AIM Spacecraft Observes Early Noctilucent Ice Clouds Over Antarctica
Data from NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica is glowing electric blue due to the start of noctilucent,…
NASA Shows Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming Summers
New research shows that the Arctic sea ice has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest…
New Study Shows ‘Smoke Waves’ Will Affect Millions in the Coming Decades
Newly published research identifies the western U.S. counties with the highest risk of exposure to pollution from wildfires. Wildfires threaten more than land and homes….
Van Allen Probes View Supercharged Radiation Belt
New research details how a shockwave created by the driving force of a coronal mass ejection from the sun – struck the outermost radiation belt,…
Is Life on Earth Premature from a Cosmic Perspective?
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics examines the possibility that present-day life is actually premature from a cosmic perspective. The universe is 13.8…
NASA Study Reveals That Historical Records Miss a Fifth of Global Warming
New research led by NASA scientists reveals that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed…
Astronomers Track the Source of Slow Solar Wind
Using newly processed observations, astronomers spot tell-tale signs that the slow solar wind passing Earth originated from a magnetic phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection. From…
