Lava from the volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula lights up clouds from below. After…
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Flood displacement risk is set to rise sharply due to climate change and population growth. …
In an eruption not far from Reykjavik, Iceland, lava poured from spatter cones along a…
Social media algorithms help scientists uncover the true, global nature of auroral substorms. Evolution of…
Ancient sea creatures had genetic traits still present in humans today, shedding light on our…
Definitive, real-world evidence for “freezing fragmentation” of drizzle as a major source of ice in…
A never-before-seen basalt type formed during early Ring of Fire eruptions was found deep under…
But in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter season ranked among the top-10 warmest. February 2021…
European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in the past two millennia, according to a new…
SAGE III monitors ozone, aerosols, and water vapor from the ISS to support climate science.…
Ahead of the International Day of Forests, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part…
Lightning may have sparked life by delivering key phosphorus, much like meteorites. Lightning strikes were…
New ESA maps of global forest biomass help track carbon storage and support climate goals…
Glacial melting boosts seismic stress in Alaska, likely intensifying earthquakes by unclamping faults. In 1958,…
Rethinking Climate Classifications Through Vertebrate Lenses The distribution of vegetation is routinely used to classify…
Melting Glaciers Accelerate River Carbon Decomposition The loss of glaciers worldwide enhances the breakdown of…
Researchers extracted over 100,000-year-old plant DNA from Arctic lake sediment and discovered dwarf birch once…
Early Season Dust Storm Hits Beijing Meteorological spring is just getting underway, and already an…