New research gives the first observational evidence that the southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own…
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A newly published study reveals that an eight-legged micro-animal will survive the risk of extinction…
NASA’s Aqua satellite and the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite discover a massive iceberg…
A new NASA study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that during Greenland’s hottest summers…
Scientists review the fundamental physical process behind space weather events that are linked to human…
A newly published study details the anthropogenic effects on the space environment, which started in…
A newly published study reveals that warmer temperatures and thawing soils may be driving an…
A major source of water for San Francisco and California’s Central Valley is the Tuolumne…
A team of researchers is using a new model to explain the blooms of phytoplankton…
A new study probes the global interactions between weather and climate, revealing the seasonal “fingerprints”…
In a newly published study scientists from MIT reveal evidence that eukaryotes — the domain…
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier…
Researchers from MIT reveal that extreme precipitation events should become more frequent as the Earth’s…
NASA’s new global view of carbon dioxide builds on the agency’s previous satellite measurements of…
Data from NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica…
New research shows that the Arctic sea ice has been hit with a double whammy…
Newly published research identifies the western U.S. counties with the highest risk of exposure to…
New research details how a shockwave created by the driving force of a coronal mass…