Melting Glaciers May Produce Thousands of Miles of New Pacific Salmon Habitat
Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western North America could produce around 6,150 kilometers (3,820 miles) of new Pacific salmon habitat by the year…
Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western North America could produce around 6,150 kilometers (3,820 miles) of new Pacific salmon habitat by the year…
The only total solar eclipse of 2021 was visible from Antarctica, where the Moon blotted out the Sun for nearly two minutes. On December 4,…
The nearly 1,000-meter-tall volcano in the South Sandwich Islands frequently finds a way to put on a show. Mount Michael, an active stratovolcano in the…
Ozone 101 is the first in a series of explainer videos outlining the fundamentals of popular Earth science topics. Let’s back up to the basics…
Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought. More rain than snow will fall in the Arctic and this transition will occur decades earlier than…
Lower humidity and higher temperatures are driving extreme weather that makes wildfires more frequent and intense, say experts. The world’s eight most extreme wildfire weather…
Strange things happen in Earth’s atmosphere at high latitudes. Around local noon, when the Sun is at its highest point, a funnel-shaped gap in our…
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in…
The increase in tritium concentration caused by Fukushima discharge over a decade. Macroscopic and microscopic simulations of Fukushima nuclear accident contaminated water discharge. On August26, …
Sea-level rise is one of the most immediate consequences of climate change, as highlighted recently through urgent pleas from leaders of island nations at the…
Earth hasn’t always been a blue and green oasis of life in an otherwise inhospitable solar system. During our planet’s first 50 million years, around…
Leaves have already dropped from the trees across much of the Northern Hemisphere, and once-colorful autumnal landscapes are starting to appear stark, bare, and even…
A change in the Southern Ocean, the region absorbing the most human-induced warming globally, is detected by new technology. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the…
Applications are now open for the role of ESA-sponsored research medical doctor at Concordia research station in Antarctica for the 2023 winter over season. Do…
Kainji Lake, a reservoir on the Niger River in western Nigeria, is featured in this true-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Kainji Lake…
There might be a quadrillion tons of diamonds 100 miles below Earth’s surface. But the farthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could…
The hot springs at Pamukkale, Turkey, have produced the world’s largest deposit of travertine. The hot springs and thermal pools at Pamukkale, Turkey, have been…
From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and…