Unprecedented Look at Ice Stream Formation on Remote Russian Glacier [Video]
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…
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…
MIT study finds that challenges in measuring and mitigating leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, prove pivotal. A new MIT study examines the opposing…
The impact of an asteroid or comet is acknowledged as the principal cause of the mass extinction that killed off most dinosaurs and about three-quarters…
University of California, Irvine-led team releases high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography. New findings will help scientists predict climate change impact on frozen…
Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica’s snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth’s atmosphere over…
Dinosaur footprints found in several European countries, very similar to others in Morocco, suggest that they could have been dispersed between the two continents by…
Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact. Shells’ chemistry shifted to respond to influx of carbon into the…
Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to carry out major decontamination works in the affected…
Using instruments onboard the International Space Station, researchers have observed millisecond pulses of gamma rays produced by thunderstorms, clarifying the process by which these flashes…