Diseased Trees May Be a Significant Source of Methane That Causes Climate Change
Scientists believe diseased trees may be a significant source of methane that causes climate change, finding concentrations of methane that were as high as 80,000…
Scientists believe diseased trees may be a significant source of methane that causes climate change, finding concentrations of methane that were as high as 80,000…
While satellites have confirmed that Greenland has lost a significant part of its ice sheet, a recent study in Science indicates that the ice sheet…
There has been a definite, palpable impact on the Earth’s climate by global warming. The unusually high frequency of heatwaves indicates that there has to…
Launched on July 5, the MSG-3 weather satellite used the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument to capture its first image of Earth….
A new study from a team of international scientists found that deforestation is advancing rapidly in tropical nations and most reserves are losing some or…
As research on greenhouse gases and global warming continues, this brief video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center explains how instruments like CERES and MODIS…
A new study found that dissolution or creation of huge gypsum deposits changed the sulfate content of the oceans, which resulted in drastic changes in…
Using data from three independent satellites to analyze the extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet, NASA and university scientists found that ice melting…
A recent image taken by Alexander Kumar and his colleague Erick Bondoux shows the Aurora Australis, also known as the southern lights, over Concordia Station….
Confirmed by data taken by MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, a 120 square km ice island has broken…
A new study from the University of Zurich found that global warming is having a negative impact on lake water, resulting in rising lake water…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder believe that nitrogen emissions are altering sensitive ecosystems in the Rocky Mountain National Park, representing a first step…
A newly published study gives the first “bottom-up” estimates of China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 2005 – 2009, combining the results of Chinese field…
A new report from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science and the Marine Institute describes for the first time a globally synchronous pattern…
A new study from researchers at Stanford University looks at how to preserve biodiversity while increases in agricultural production to feed people continue. To keep…
While the use of lead gasoline has severally dwindled since the 1970s, the effects on the environment are widespread. Scientists at MIT that have been…
Enjoy an excerpt from the full-length “Dynamic Earth” presentation, which explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system with visualizations based on satellite monitoring data…
A recently published paper from Stanford scientists suggests that carbon sequestration is likely to create pressure build-up large enough cause intraplate earthquakes, breaking the reservoirs’…