Innovative New Space-Based Weather Instruments Start Gathering Data
Innovative mini instruments on the International Space Station have produced their first maps of global humidity and ocean winds. After being installed on the International…
Innovative mini instruments on the International Space Station have produced their first maps of global humidity and ocean winds. After being installed on the International…
Scientists repeatedly check the weather forecasts as they prepare aircraft for flight and perform last-minute checks on science instruments. There’s a large winter storm rolling…
In July 2019, a series of earthquakes including two major shocks of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 a day apart struck near Ridgecrest, CA, between Los…
Despite an overall trend of Arctic ice loss, the Bering Sea saw an expansion of sea ice due to a short-lived atmospheric-pressure pattern. In 2022,…
The asteroid that killed nearly all dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. An international team of scientists from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Uppsala…
The Thar desert’s abundance of open space and sunshine make it an ideal place for solar power. Scorching temperatures, infertile soils, limited water supplies, and…
The report, Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires, finds an elevated risk even for the Arctic and other regions previously unaffected…
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled after making landfall over coastal Texas, pouring down record rainfall, flooding communities, and becoming one of the wettest and most…
The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower. Researchers have observed extremely high…
AWI experts confirm the delayed spread of the ice sheet 35 million years ago. Roughly 35 million years ago, Earth cooled rapidly. At roughly the…
NASA is launching a prototype instrument that could make it easier to monitor volcanic activity and air quality. Perched aboard a CubeSat about 300 miles…
The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the fact that this underwater volcano actually erupted came as less of a…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Tenerife – the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands. Located in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the northwest coast of…
Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age. As ice sheets…
What Are Earth System and Climate Models? Earth system models and climate models are a complex integration of environmental variables used for understanding our planet….
A group of 60 scientists called for a moratorium on solar geoengineering last month, including technologies such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI). This involves a…
Dissolving Oil in a Sunlit Sea The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in United States history. The disaster was…
Researchers have uncovered the most detail ever of the mysterious structures laying between the Earth’s mantle and core, also providing the strongest evidence yet they…