This specimen of rock consists almost entirely of fossilized cyanobacteria that once lived in an ancient shallow sea. Their proliferation decreased the amount of carbon…
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Thunderstorm seen from the space station. Credit: DTU Space, ESA, NASA Using instruments onboard the International Space Station, researchers have observed millisecond pulses of gamma-rays…
In a new study published today (December 9, 2019) in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase…
This is a NASA image showing the ozone hole at its maximum extent for 2015. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Montreal Protocol, an…
World-renowned climate scientist J. Shukla calls the new paper by University of Maryland scientists ‘a very important paper in the history of predictability research.’ University…
Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution. Credit: Marys_Photos; Pixabay Graphene Flagship partners the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, CNR, NEST, Italcementi HeidelbergCement Group, the…
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now “active,” a group of leading scientists have warned. This threatens the…
The Program of the Antarctic Syowa Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere/Incoherent Scatter radar (PANSY radar) consisting of an active phased array of 1045 Yagi antennas. Credit: Taishi Hashimoto (NIPR)…
On the right, satellite composition of El Nino in 1997, and on the left, El Nino in 2015. Both were extreme El Nino events that…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover imaged these drifting clouds on May 17, 2019, the 2,410th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its black-and-white Navigation…
A global coalition of scientists led by William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State University says “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep…
Greenhouse gases may get more attention, but aerosols — from car exhaust to volcanic eruptions — also have a major impact on the Earth’s climate.…
Tropical convection between Fiji and New Zealand from the NASA DC-8 during the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission on February 5, 2017. Credit: Samuel Hall/National Center…
Lago de Cahora Bassa in Mozambique was one of the lakes that Ho, Michalak, and Pahlevan’s study of the intensity of lakewater algal blooms showed…
Australian hot and dry extremes can have devastating effects on human health and resources. Changes in springtime winds high above the South Pole are set…
This is an ultrafast glimpse of the photochemistry of the atmosphere. Credit: Matthias Kling Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have explored the initial consequences…
NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captures a polar vortex moving from Central Canada into the U.S. Midwest from January 20 through January 29. Credits:…