Columbia Glacier Retreating to the Sea in Alaska
It took seven years, but the photographic record of the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound on Alaska’s southern central Pacific coast has been compiled…
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Particulate Pollution Created ‘Warming Hole’ that Delayed Climate Change
In what may seem like a strange twist on global warming and greenhouse gas effects, Harvard researchers discovered that particulate pollution created a “warming hole”…
Changes in Ocean Salinity and the Water Cycle Could Affect Food Supplies
While scientists continue to monitor climate change and its cause and effect on the environment, a new study from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory looks…
Study Blames Warm Ocean Currents for Majority of Ice Loss in Antarctica
Using new techniques with satellite measurements to differentiate between the warm ocean currents attacking the underside ice shelves and warm air melting it from above,…
Cryosat Mission Took Detailed Data of Polar Ice Caps
The ESA’s Cryosat mission has been watching the Arctic sea ice with a high degree of precision ever since it was launched in 2010 to…
Increased Methane Gas Levels Found Over Cracks in Arctic Sea Ice
As scientists continue to research and monitor greenhouse gas emissions, a new source of methane gas has appeared from cracks in Arctic sea ice. Conducted…
Defects in Mantle Rocks Slow Down the Passage of Seismic Waves
A new study from the Australian National University examines defects in rocks found below the earth’s surface in an attempt to better understand how seismic…
Study Reports Air Pollution Causes Thousands of Premature Deaths Each Year
Anyone that has every taken a bike ride, jogged or walked along a busy street knows how bad the air feels and smells and has…
Himalayan Glaciers Declining Less Rapidly Than Previously Thought
A new study suggests that the decline of the Himalayan glaciers due to climate change may be occurring at a slower rate than previously thought….
Cloud Forests are at Risk of Destruction from Global Warming
A new study warns that climate change resulting from human pressures could result in the near total loss of some of the world’s most delicate…
Third Pole Glacial Measuring Stations Will Give Monitor Glacier Health in Tibet
An international team of scientists is starting a long-term campaign to measure the overall health of the ice atop Tibet and its surrounding mountains. This…
NASA Makes Earth’s Oceans Look like Van Gogh’s Starry Night
This incredible visualization of the Earth and its oceans was created by the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It’s called Perpetual…
GRACE Data Spreads Awareness of Groundwater Levels
To help bring awareness to the importance of Earth’s groundwater, a new map showing the world’s groundwater supplies has been created in part from data…
Earth’s Continental Crust Growth Rate Has Decreased
Newly published research shows that the growth rate of the Earth’s continental crust has decreased significantly over the last three billion years, leaving researchers to…
Expedition to Atlantis Massif Yields New Information
While on IODP Expedition 340T, a team of scientists was able to measure the geophysical properties of gabbroic rocks directly in place for the first…
Storing Carbon Emissions in Deep Saline Aquifers
To better understand climate change and global warming, researchers realize that they must address carbon emissions. A new study suggests using deep saline aquifers that…
Past Estimates of Sea-Level Rise Lowered
Scientists agree that the ocean levels are increasing as the global temperature warms, but how high they will go is the question. By studying where…
Fossil Fuel Emissions, Organic Carbon and Alaska’s Glaciers
While studying climate change and trying to decipher the carbon cycle puzzle, researchers have been studying the source and amount of carbon flowing into the…
