If It Wasn’t for Jupiter, Venus Might Be Habitable Today
Study shows the destabilizing effect of the giant gas planet. Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit…
Study shows the destabilizing effect of the giant gas planet. Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit…
Changes in the Earth’s climate over the last 66 million years have been revealed in unprecedented detail by a team involving UCL researchers, highlighting four…
Monitoring the cryosphere is essential to fully assess, predict and adapt to climate variability and change. Given the importance of this fragile component of the…
Sea ice can act as an agent of climate change on a variety of timescales and spatial scales—it’s not just a passive responder to change….
From Berryessa to Klamath Mountains, High-Severity Burns Quadrupled During Warm Drought High-severity wildfires in northern coastal California have been increasing by about 10 percent per decade…
Despite climate change being most obvious to people as unseasonably warm winter days or melting glaciers, as much as 95 percent of the extra heat…
The ocean takes up an estimated five to 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year through a process known as the biological carbon pump. More…
On August 19, 2020, the world’s largest and longest polar research expedition – known as MOSAiC – reached the North Pole after making an unplanned…
A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller…
Ocean Carbon Uptake Widely Underestimated The world’s oceans soak up much more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research. Previous estimates of…
Scientists’ ice age ‘hindcast’ may shed light on future climate. A University of Arizona-led team has nailed down the temperature of the last ice age…
A University of Colorado Boulder-led team is the first to observe new equatorial wind patterns in Antarctica, revealing new connections in global circulation. A CIRES-led…
Four years of research confidently narrows range of 1.5°C-4.5°C down to 2.3°C-3.9°C. The most advanced and comprehensive analysis of climate sensitivity yet undertaken has revealed…
Findings also suggest exoplanets lying within habitable zones may be susceptible to ice ages. At least twice in Earth’s history, nearly the entire planet was…
Ph.D. student Steven Fons’ Arctic research adventure, complicated by COVID-19. For Steven Fons, returning home to D.C. in June was like coming back from another…
The technology’s regional impacts depend on how much greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. Could we create massive sulfuric acid clouds that limit global warming and…
An international team reveals discoveries about an unusual time called the “Carnian Pluvial Episode.” The Triassic Period, about 252 to 201 million years ago, was…
As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years. That’s always puzzled scientists, but…