NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Maps Greenland’s Coastline
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission is making the first high-resolution maps of the complete Greenland coast and continental shelf, helping scientists to better understand ice…
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission is making the first high-resolution maps of the complete Greenland coast and continental shelf, helping scientists to better understand ice…
For the first time, Yale University geophysicists are getting to look at a geological process in South America that mirrors the formation of America’s Rocky…
A newly published study reveals that a combination of naturally occurring atmospheric processes and pollutants crossing the Pacific Ocean from China have offset the reduction…
The Augmented Reality Sandbox allows students to interact with a miniature landscape, sculpting mountains, valleys, rivers, and even volcanoes, with off-the-shelf readily available parts. Gary…
This newly released NASA image shows Africa and Europe from a million miles away. Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken…
A new study from the University of British Columbia reveals that the early loss of radioactive heat-producing elements such as uranium and potassium helped put…
New measurements from ESA’s CryoSat Satellite show that the volume of Arctic sea ice increased following the unusually cool summer of 2013, suggesting that ice…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry reveal that lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria produce large amounts of nitrous oxide. Inconspicuous creatures surprise with a…
A team of researchers from MIT and UCLA have identified zebra-like stripes of plasma in a region of space about 12,000 miles from Earth’s surface….
A newly published study resolves the inconsistencies in the timing of atmospheric volcanic aerosol loading determined from ice cores and subsequent cooling from climate proxies…
A newly published study from NASA helps answer questions about droughts, flooding, and how much water is on the move and where it is going….
A newly published NASA study reveals that the last remaining section of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf is weakening and will likely to disintegrate completely…
New research from the University of Washington found evidence that life was pulling nitrogen out of the air and converting it into a form that…
New research shows that high concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide in ocean water coincides with rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperatures at the…
A new study from the University of Cambridge reveals that the Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles) and contains…
A newly published study from geophysicists Rice University and the University of Nevada challenges assumptions about a rigid lithosphere, revealing that the Pacific plate is…
A newly published study shows that in certain circumstances a pool of dense particles normally circling Earth can extend a long arm out to meet…
New research shows that interplanetary dust particles from comets, asteroids, and leftover debris from the birth of the solar system, could have helped jump-start life…