The Gibson Generating Station is a coal-burning power plant located in Gibson County, Indiana. Credit: Emily Grubert, Georgia Tech Decarbonizing U.S. electricity production will require…
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Water from Canada’s Mackenzie River enters the blue Arctic Ocean in July 2012. White areas in the top half of the photo are largely sea…
Sea level rise scenarios have a 50% and 5% chance of exceedance in the mid-twenty-first century (panels a and b) and the late-twenty-first century (panels…
A vertically exaggerated, false-color view of a large, water-carved channel on Mars called Dao Vallis. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. 3D rendered and…
Low-energy (blue) and high-energy (yellow) electrons form during the process that generates the pulsating aurora. The high-energy ‘relativistic’ electrons could cause localized destruction of the…
An artistic illustration of Earth today and 4.5 billion years ago. Credit: Tobias Stierli / NCCR PlanetS A team of international scientists led by ETH…
The active grid in the wind tunnel can stir up air flows to generate realistic storm turbulence. Credit: University of Oldenburg/Mohssen Assanimoghaddam Turbulence is an…
From October to March, large parts of the Swiss Plateau and the Po-Plain may be covered by fog or haze. Such thermal inversions act like…
Aerial view of the active vent and gas plume of Manam volcano, Papua New Guinea, from a fixed-wing drone at 2300 m altitude. Credit: Emma…
Changes in the region’s ecosystem, driven by heatwaves and drought, could be devastating for large herbivores, such as wild sheep, antelope and camels. Credit: Usukhbayar…
High-elevation climbers and Sherpa at the Balcony during the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. Credit: Baker Perry, National Geographic Scientists have identified…
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, space- and ground-based observations have shown that Earth’s atmosphere has seen significant reductions in some air pollutants. However, scientists wanted…
Estimated fair market value of all properties in the United States (3D visualization). Credit: Photo courtesy of Christoph Nolte, Boston University Environmental conservation expert discusses…
A band of clouds in an atmospheric river extending from South America to the Antarctic sea ice zone on September 16, 2017. Credit: NASA Warm,…
The site for astronomy at Dome A. Credit: SHANG Zhaohui A research team led by Prof. SHANG Zhaohui from National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese…
Past carbon dioxide concentrations (at left) compared to possible future emissions scenarios (at right): The rate of current emissions is much faster — occurring over…
Spectators gather around a bonfire at Himley Hall near Dudley, on November 6, 2010. Credit: SJNikon – Sam Roberts CC BY 2.0 Bonfire Night celebrations…
Credit: ACS / Environmental Science & Technology Letters Some people refer to the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau as the “third pole” because the region has the largest…
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
At the center of the large illuminated region there is an ocean of molten rock overlain by an atmosphere of rock vapor. Supersonic winds blow…