An international research team including scientists from ETH Zurich has shown that almost all the world’s glaciers are becoming thinner and losing mass’ and that…
Study finds Earth’s frozen surfaces became less susceptible to thawing, potentially locking in more carbon than expected. Nearly one quarter of the land in the…
Fractures from melting and run-off will indirectly lead to sea level rise. More than a third of the Antarctic’s ice shelf area could be at…
A Southern California high school junior has built a low-cost seismometer device that delivers earthquake early warnings for homes and businesses. Costing less than $100…
In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a bold scientific study to restore one of the…
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is emitted during plant photosynthesis. SIF results from vegetation chlorophyll giving off red and infrared light wavelengths when excited by solar…
The Bay Area has several famous landmarks that stand out from the Space Station. The winter months in the San Francisco Bay area offer a…
The NASA-funded Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) performed well in seismic experiments conducted in snowy summer Greenland, according to a new study…
A “super full moon” is coming on April 27, 2021, and coastal cities like Miami know that means one thing: a heightened risk of tidal…
The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) has important implications for plate…
Rewilding—a hands-off approach to restoring and protecting biodiversity—is increasingly employed across the globe to combat the environmental footprint of rapid urbanization and intensive farming. The…
The state of the planet is much worse than most people understand and that humans face a grim and “ghastly future” unless extraordinary action is…
There were no records set in 2020-21, but the downward trends in polar ice continue. The amount of sea ice around Earth’s poles waxes and…
More than 30 years ago, wilderness areas — natural areas that have not been considerably modified by humans — were identified as priorities of conservation…
Negative Emissions, Positive Economy The long-term goals of the Paris Agreement — keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally 1.5 C in…
Loss of water on land through ice melting and human-caused factors is changing the movement of the North and South poles. Glacial melting due to…
Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation for the formation of luminous structures after electrical discharges split…
Researchers from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern have, for the first time, reconstructed mean ocean temperatures over the…