Great, Warm Lakes – Heat Records in Jeopardy
When the usually chilly Great Lakes feel like bath water, you know it has been a warm summer. When the water is that warm at…
When the usually chilly Great Lakes feel like bath water, you know it has been a warm summer. When the water is that warm at…
Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names, and classification schemes, can span many generations, preserving information that has helped native communities adapt to natural…
The Sentinel-6/Jason-CS satellite mission will add to a long-term sea level dataset that’s become the gold standard for climate studies from orbit. Over the course…
An international team reveals discoveries about an unusual time called the “Carnian Pluvial Episode.” The Triassic Period, about 252 to 201 million years ago, was…
The pandemic has tugged carbon emissions down, temporarily. But levels of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane continue to climb, dragging the world further away from…
In southern South America, clouds often rule the skies. But in June 2020, just the right weather patterns were in place to provide a rare,…
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the busy maritime traffic in the Bay of Naples, in southern Italy. The two identical Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites…
Stanford scientists find the growth of phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean has increased 57 percent over just two decades, enhancing its ability to soak up…
From its vantage point aboard the Aqua satellite, the instrument maps how much moisture the storm’s clouds contain. Tropical Storm Fay is sweeping across New…
2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Could be Absorbed From the Atmosphere Each Year by Applying Rock Dust to Farmland Adding crushed rock dust to farmland…
As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years. That’s always puzzled scientists, but…
A ringing bell vibrates simultaneously at a low-pitched fundamental tone and at many higher-pitched overtones, producing a pleasant musical sound. A recent study, just published in…
The colossus iceberg that split from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017, is now in the open waters of the South Atlantic…
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season…
Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean….
Every summer in the Northern Hemisphere, electric blue streaks form high in the atmosphere. These seasonal clouds typically lurk about 80 kilometers (50 miles) overhead…
University of Maryland researcher discovers important ocean blender effect that may influence climate and fisheries from Florida to Newfoundland. New research provides the first direct…
A young volcanic island has been growing in the western Pacific Ocean since 2013. Since mid-June 2020, it has been going through a vigorous growth…