Colombian Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Has Increased Activity
The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia hasn’t erupted in over 20 years, but there are signs that point that it’s entering a more active…
The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia hasn’t erupted in over 20 years, but there are signs that point that it’s entering a more active…
The rapidly disappearing glaciers are altering more than the physical landscape, as a recent analysis suggests. Species that live in streams and rivers that flow…
According to the first-ever continent-wide risk assessment, climate change and the increasing number of visitors are putting the Antarctic ecosystems at risk. The research team…
NASA is set to launch five rockets to study the high-speed winds and electrical turbulence of the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles…
The Italian volcano Etna, located in on the eastern coast of Sicily, had its third paroxysm of 2012 on March 4th, its first since early…
The chemical weathering process of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dissolving in rainwater to form carbonic acid, which dissolves rocks and then flows into the…
While analyzing samples of submarine volcanic glass near subduction zones, scientists found something unexpected. They saw changes in isotopes of hydrogen and boron from the…
Research complied from NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program by senior research scientist Josefino Comiso shows how multi-year…
Researchers at MIT and Florida State University found evidence that the missing piece in the model of world’s oceans circulation of heat, water and carbon…
Researchers have discovered a veritable microbial oasis, under the Atacama Desert in Chile. The region is known for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), but…
Deep below the ocean’s surface, huge eddies are often formed. The depths have their own kinds of weather systems. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this photo…
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the northern lights. The 46-foot (14-meter) rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in…
Researchers analyzed NASA satellite data from 2000 – 2010 and found that the global average cloud height declined by around one percent over the decade,…
A nationwide study released today showed that fallout from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power facility in Japan was measured in minimal amounts in precipitation…
While climate models can forecast temperature changes and precipitation, they struggle to indicate how climate change will affect the factors that make Earth habitable, such…
The USGS announced on Thursday the founding of the new California Volcano Observatory (CalVO), which joins the ranks of the Yellowstone, Cascades, Hawaii, Alaska and…
Geologists are using new airborne lidar equipment to study earthquakes and provide comprehensive before-and-after pictures of earthquake zones. The lidar (light detection and ranging) equipment…
Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder, in a joint effort with NASA, shows that regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 148…