Exploring Earth From Space: Puglia, Italy [Video]
Part of Puglia, or Apulia, a region in southern Italy, is featured in this image captured from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Puglia is…
Part of Puglia, or Apulia, a region in southern Italy, is featured in this image captured from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Puglia is…
Researchers have finally answered a long-standing question over the role of Earth’s orbit in driving global ice age cycles. Scientists have been able to decipher…
Scientists have recently confirmed that the world’s lakes are rapidly losing oxygen. With a seven-year, whole-ecosystem study, a team of freshwater scientists at Virginia Tech…
The January 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano in Tonga was the largest volcanic eruption in the 21st century, and the largest recorded since the…
Mount Erebus, Antarctica’s only active volcano, shows how CO2 allows volcanoes to form persistent lava lakes at the surface. Antarctica has long been a land…
Research shows that only ambitious climate protection measures can still save a third of the tundra. Temperatures in the Arctic are climbing rapidly as a…
While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth’s interior is anything but peaceful, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes taking…
Unlocking the Secrets of Killer Whale Diets and Their Role in Climate Change Killer whale populations are invading the Arctic, creating major disruptions to an…
In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national park—and many of its famous fossils—owe their existence to water….
Researchers recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs. As soon as an iceberg is born it starts to die….
Dubai’s coast has some of the largest and most recognizable land reclamation projects on Earth. There are no other coastlines on Earth quite like the…
Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers. A new study, published in Nature Communications, found that if Greenland’s second-largest ice shelf breaks up, it may…
For the first time, an entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds has been found under atmospheric conditions. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen, in…
A new study has revealed super cyclones, the most intense form of tropical storms, are likely to have a much more devastating impact on people…
Experts detail the abundance of diverse “unconventional water sources.” Tapping a fraction can help meet fast-growing global freshwater needs. UN and partner water experts say…
The top ten percent most valuable residences in the western United States are 70% more likely to be in high wildfire hazard areas than median-value…
Planting a tree appears to be a generally positive thing to do for the environment. After all, trees take in carbon dioxide, offsetting some of…
Kavachi Volcano in the Southwest Pacific Solomon Islands—where hammerhead sharks prowl—has entered an active phase of eruption. The Solomon Islands’ Kavachi Volcano is one of…