Controlled outdoor environments known as “mesocosms” were used to study climate change impacts on nutrition and toxicity on the aquatic food web. Credit: Pianpian Wu…
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An analysis of observational data and a large climate model finds Earth’s 11-year cycle is out of sync with solar fluctuations. The Earth’s global climate…
As part of the ESA–NASA Arctic Methane and Permafrost Challenge, new research has revealed that rapidly thawing Arctic permafrost has the potential to release antibiotic…
Surface meltwater flowing towards the ocean through a channel in Greenland. Credit: Ian Joughin Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to…
The University of Arizona team created maps of global temperatures for each 200-year interval since the last ice age. A University of Arizona-led effort to…
According to a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the influence of human-induced climate change is evident in the fact that lake-water temperatures are rising in…
Climate change is impacting agriculture in a number of ways. Researchers use satellite data and computer modeling to monitor and mitigate these impacts. Credit: NASA/Earth…
A new study suggests that a million years ago, glaciers began sticking more persistently to their beds, triggering cycles of longer ice ages. Here, ice…
Honey bee colonies worldwide have suffered from a range of damaging diseases. A new study has provided clues on how changing weather patterns might be…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…
An artist’s rendering of the conditions during the End-Permian Mass Extinction, which wiped out nearly all life on earth. (Illustration by Victor Leshyk ‘The end-Permian…
[embedded content] Glaciers across the globe have lost over nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century. How will glaciers look over the coming…
NASA is expanding research to lead the nation to a sustainable, net-zero carbon emissions aviation future. Credit: Vehicle image created by Scott Anders, Rich Wahls…
Rice University’s Lauren Howe-Kerr, left, and Adrienne Correa discovered that symbiont algae found on corals in French Polynesia are able to reproduce via mitosis and…
Researchers’ ice core drilling camp on Colle Gnifetti in 2015. Two ice cores extracted from this area preserved a continuous one-thousand-year record of European climate…
Researchers from Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and Duke University investigate a humpback whale by boat and drone in the surface waters near the Western…
New research published today in the journal Nature finds that gigantic baleen whales—such as blue, fin and humpback whales—eat an average of three times more…
Hungry caterpillars are an underappreciated driver of carbon emissions. A study led by the University of Cambridge has found that periodic mass outbreaks of leaf-munching…
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make a readily usable biofuel. A team of biologists…
Surface meltwater flowing towards the ocean through a channel in Greenland. Credit: Ian Joughin Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to…