Scientists: By 2500 Earth Could Be Alien to Humans
Climate projections should not stop at year 2100. To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well…
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Seismology and Geophysics: Understanding the Devastating Haiti Earthquakes
Assistant professors Camilla Cattania and William Frank discuss the science behind the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti. On August 14, 2021, a magnitude 7.2…
Auroras Announce the Solar Cycle: More Frequent Opportunities To See the Northern and Southern Lights
The 25th cycle is underway, and it brings more frequent opportunities to see the northern lights and southern lights. Solar Cycle 25 is underway, and…
Waiting To Unload: Global Supply Chain Disruption Visible From NASA Satellites
The pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and markets in ways that have led to backlogs of cargo ships at key ports. Booming demand for…
NASA Releases Climate Action Plan
NASA released a climate action plan on October 7, 2021, aimed at averting mission impacts due to climate change, ensuring the resiliency of facilities and…
New Understanding of the Arctic’s Carbon Cycle – How Carbon Is Transferred Between Land, Ocean, and Atmosphere
New research from UMass Amherst shines light on poorly understood processes of how carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects our world. In a pair of…
Alisal Fire Rages Near Santa Barbara – Strong Winds Fuel Fast-Moving Fire
Chaparral shrublands and strong winds are fueling the fast-moving fire. For much of summer 2021, large fires decimated forests in Northern California. By the middle of…
Extreme Sea Levels Will Become 100x More Frequent Along Coastlines Across the World
Global warming will cause extreme sea levels to occur almost every year by the end of the century, impacting major coastlines worldwide, according to new…
Growing Climate Solutions: Climate-Smart Agriculture
Stanford Earth scientists discuss climate-smart agriculture. A bill under debate in Congress would pave the way to verifying and paying for farms’ carbon savings. Stanford…
Paradox of the Young Weak Sun: Extreme CO2 Greenhouse Effect Heated Up the Young Earth
Although sun radiation was relatively low, the temperature on the young Earth was warm. An international team of geoscientists has found important clues that high…
New Lava River From La Palma Volcano Captured by Satellite
La Palma Volcano: How Satellites Help Us Monitor Eruptions Since the Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting on September 19, 2021, lava has burned through homes,…
Strong El Niño Drives Nearly 6 Million Children Into Severe Hunger
Up to 3 times more children suffer severe hunger with each El Niño than from Covid-19. El Niño events provide a snapshot of the future…
Massive Flying Laboratory Uncovers Secrets of How Marine Life Influences Cloud Formation
Ocean Life Helps Produce Clouds, but Existing Clouds Keep New Ones at Bay Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the…
Worldwide Decline in Quantity and Diversity of Insects in the Light of Land Use and Climate
Worldwide, the quantity and diversity of insects are declining: scientists have reported more and more evidence for this in recent years. In politics and society,…
Superbolts Carry Super Power: Details of a Rare Type of Lightning That Stretches Into Space
Scientists reveal details of a rare type of lightning that stretches into space. A rare type of lightning has had scientists scratching their heads since…
Climate Models Can’t Reproduce the Early-2000s Global Warming Slowdown – Scientists Explain Why
A recent study led by Dr. Wei and Dr. Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources provides an evaluation of the…
New Science Shows Earth’s Natural Carbon Sinks Hold Vital Power in Climate Fight
Earth’s vast habitats from the poles to the equator have robust capacity to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere due to previously undiscovered rock nitrogen weathering reactions…
What Will the Earth Be Like in 500 Years?
Scientists can make some pretty accurate forecasts about the future. But predicting what the Earth will be like 500 years from now is a difficult…