A tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) swimming at the surface with a biologging package attached to dorsal fin. This package records temperature, swimming speed, depth, body…
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This photo of sea ice on the Wandel Sea north of Greenland was taken August 16, 2020, from the German icebreaker Polarstern, which passed through…
Mandible of small antelope in calcrete. Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced…
Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm changes in the Southern Great Plains. Large thunderstorms in the…
There is evidence that a comet struck Earth around 13,000 years ago. A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years…
Harpy Eagle. Harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) — which are among the world’s largest eagle species — struggle to feed offspring in heavily deforested areas of…
These AIM images span June 6-June 18, 2021, when the Northern Hemisphere noctilucent cloud season was well underway. The colors — from dark blue to…
“Yellow cells” of the symbiotic algae, Philozoon collosum, isolated from the soft coral, Capnella gaboensis, collected off the east coast of southern Australia. Credit: Matthew…
During pelagic red crab stranding events — like this one documented at a beach in Pacific Grove, California — the small red crustaceans wash ashore…
First global assessment of the extent of snow and ice cover on Earth’s surface—a critical factor cooling the planet through reflected sunlight—and its response to…
Dusk falls on East Africa’s Turkana Basin 4 million years ago, where our early upright-walking ape ancestors, Australopithecus anamensis (foreground), shared their habitat with several…
Some of the complex structural arrangements of catalysts;left is known as branched structure and the right as cage structure. Credit: Professor Anna Klinkova of the…
Artistic rendering of the propane dehydrogenation process taking place on the novel single atom alloy catalyst, as predicted by theory. The picture shows the transition…
Comparison of overlapping one-year estimates at 6-month intervals of net top-of-the-atmosphere annual energy flux from CERES (solid orange line) and an in situ observational estimate…
Can you imagine a world powered by 100% renewable electricity and fuels? It may seem fantasy, but a collaborative team of scientists has just shown…
This cut-away rendering of the MIT nuclear battery concept shows important components such as the instrumentation and control module, the reactor, and the power module.…
Investments in agricultural research, water management, infrastructure can avert climate-fueled growth in hunger. In order to prevent the impacts of climate change from pushing an…
Rainclouds moving over the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Jessica Baker Amazon rain forests could be at far higher risk of extreme drought than previously thought, according…
Although the emissions targets for aviation are in line with the overall goals of the Paris Agreement, there is a high likelihood that the climate…
Some of the birds collected at Chicago’s McCormick Place that are in the Field Museum collections, including an eastern meadowlark (far left) and an indigo…