Scientists Map Rivers of Pollution in the Sky
Windy regions high in the atmosphere can transport pollutants like dust or soot thousands of miles around the world and disrupt everyday life for thousands…
Windy regions high in the atmosphere can transport pollutants like dust or soot thousands of miles around the world and disrupt everyday life for thousands…
Findings could help explain how air pollutants interact with the atmosphere. Researchers at the University of British Columbia, University of California Irvine, and McGill University…
Cave deposits reveal Pleistocene permafrost thaw, absent predicted levels of CO2 release. The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America…
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…
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…
Simulation led by University of Chicago geoscientist finds missing piece to Martian climate puzzle. One of the great mysteries of modern space science is neatly…
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…
The disastrous consequences of climate “tipping points” could be averted if global warming was reversed quickly enough, new research suggests. Once triggered, tipping points may…
An international climate intervention workgroup publishes paper exploring the potential risks and benefits of a proposed high-tech climate intervention. Nine of the hottest years in…
Surprisingly, exposure to a high background radiation might actually lead to clear beneficial health effects in humans, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and…
Snow cover in the Alps has been melting almost three days earlier per decade since the 1960s. This trend is temperature-related and cannot be compensated…
The April snow falling on fruit blossoms in Europe these days may be directly connected to the loss of the sea ice in the Barents…
To confirm life on other planets, we need to detect far more molecules in their atmospheres than we currently do to rule out non-biological chemical…
For the first time, researchers have been able to obtain data from underneath Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsday Glacier.” They find that the…
Published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group — including Jessica Hellmann from the University of…
The permanent rise of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere, which fundamentally changed the subsequent nature of Earth’s habitability, occurred much later than thought, according to…
Earth’s energy budget. Not a familiar concept? Maybe you’re scratching your head, wondering, what is that? Don’t worry. You’re not the only one. The good…
Research finds EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas production. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from oil and gas production…