September Equinox Marks the Official Start of Fall 2022
Complemented by cooler temperatures and falling leaves, the September equinox heralds the official beginning of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere. For 2022, this…
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Hurricane Fiona & Typhoon Nanmadol: Powerful Storms Hit Puerto Rico and Japan
Fiona and Nanmadol dropped several feet of rain on the islands on opposite sides of the world. On September 18, 2022, potent tropical cyclones made…
Updated CMIP6 Climate Models Clouded by Scientific Biases
Clouds can either cool or warm the planet’s surface, a radiative effect that contributes substantially to the global energy budget and can be altered by…
Scientists Say Refreezing Earth’s Poles Is Feasible and Remarkably Cheap
Earth’s poles are warming several times faster than the global average. In fact, record-smashing heatwaves were reported earlier this year in both the Arctic and…
New Zealand’s Mount Ruapehu Captured in Stunning Image by Space Station Astronaut
A lake at the summit of the volcano provides the main clues to what is happening below. While passing over the North Island of New…
What Really Killed Dinosaurs and Other Life on Earth? Maybe NOT an Asteroid Strike
Dartmouth-led research fortifies link between mega volcanoes and mass extinctions. What killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period?…
The Earth’s Newest Secret: Fundamental Changes to What We Know About How Volcanoes Work
Recent discoveries from Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall eruptions alter what we know about how volcanoes work. Learning something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world doesn’t…
Feeling the Heat in the Extremes: Where To Expect Heat Waves in the United States in the Future
New climate research shows where to expect hot and humid heat waves in the United States in the coming decades. In the summer of 2022,…
Typhoon Muifa Lands Near Shanghai – Near China’s Largest Metropolitan Area and Major Shipping Ports
Typhoon Muifa made landfall twice near China’s largest metropolitan area and several of the world’s major shipping ports on September 14, 2022. First, the typhoon…
Risk of a Catastrophic Volcano Eruption Is Startlingly High – And the World Is “Woefully Unprepared”
Experts say that the risk of a catastrophic eruption is “a roll of the dice”. According to experts from the University of Birmingham and the…
Stanford Scientists Discover Crucial Missing Component of Sea-Level Rise
Scientists seeking to understand how melting ice in Antarctica will impact the planet’s oceans often use computational modeling. Their recent efforts have focused on ice-sheet…
NASA Trailer: A New Era of Earth Science
NASA satellites have provided open-source and publicly available data on Earth’s land, water, temperature, weather, and climate for more than 50 years. To improve access…
Parched Poyang Lake – China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Dries Out
China’s largest freshwater lake drained by prolonged heat and drought. Between the winter and summer seasons, Poyang Lake, in China’s Jiangxi Province, routinely fluctuates in…
Surprising Discovery Shows How Slowing of Continental Plate Movement Controlled Earth’s Largest Volcanic Events
Major volcanic events occurred millions of years ago that caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events…
It’s Only Going To Get Hotter: Scientists Forecast Rising Temperatures and More Frequent Heatwaves
Researchers find that human activities increase the chance of more intense heat waves. The 19th of July was the hottest day ever recorded in the…
Lake Manchar Is Overflowing – Extreme Monsoon Flooding
In the face of extreme monsoon flooding, Pakistan’s largest lake has had several breaches. Lake Manchar, Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake, overflowed in early September 2022…
Availability of Vital Renewable Energy Source at Risk From Climate Change
Climate change is putting the availability of biomass fuels and technologies – a vital alternative to fossil fuels – at risk, according to new research….
Doomsday Glacier “Holding On by Its Fingernails” – Spine-Chilling Retreat Could Raise Sea Levels by 10 Feet
Faster in the Past: New seafloor images – the highest resolution of any taken off the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – upend understanding of Thwaites…
