NASA Analysis: 2021 Tied for 6th Hottest Year in Continued Warming Trend
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and the…
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and the…
New research suggests ways to optimize US climate policy design for a just energy transition. In November, inflation hit a 39-year high in the United…
A summer heatwave knocked out power in Argentina, while heat in Western Australia likely tied the hottest temperature ever measured south of the equator. Summer…
After months of severe drought, a burst of rain is causing problems. For much of 2021, drought gripped southern Iran, parching crops, drying wells, and fueling protests over…
A dark, rainy spring gave way to a vast, long-lived phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Brazil. Beachgoers in the Brazilian state of Rio de…
Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between the Earth’s core and mantle conducts heat….
The world’s first inventory of subglacial lakes has been compiled by an international team led by the University of Sheffield, providing a comprehensive directory of…
The Kangerlussuaq Glacier, one of Greenland’s largest tidewater outlet glaciers, is pictured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. Meaning ‘large fjord’…
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth-warmest year on record, according to independent analyses from NASA and the National Oceanic…
Americans who eat beef could slash their diet’s carbon footprint as much as 48 percent by swapping just one serving per day for a more…
A sensor installed on the International Space Station is yielding fresh insights on the global distribution of lightning. Since the dawn of humanity, lightning has…
Clothes Dryers Are an Underappreciated Source of Airborne Microfibers No one likes when their favorite clothes develop holes or unravel after many laundry cycles. But…
Clouds parted for a glimpse of one of the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth. Mount Vesuvius, located 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) southeast of Naples, Italy,…
Accumulated heat in the upper ocean is at record levels, again! The world’s oceans are hotter than ever before, continuing their record-breaking temperature streak for…
More than 20 million people in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia now face some of the worst food security risks in 35 years. Following three consecutive…
The glow of a volcanic eruption in the Galápagos Islands was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP…
Glacial erosion likely caused atmospheric oxygen levels to dip over past 800,000 years. An unknown culprit has been removing oxygen from our atmosphere for at…
Through the use of remotely sensed data, scientists were able to understand the mysterious deaths of caribou in Canada and reindeer in the Bering Sea…