A NASA supercomputer model shows how greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) – a key driver of global warming – fluctuate in Earth’s atmosphere throughout…
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Sea-level rise leads to increased flooding at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. The photos show approximately the same view in…
Floating solar farms could help to protect lakes and reservoirs from some of the harms of climate change, a new study suggests. However, given the…
People living in South Asia already experience potentially deadly heat waves, but these events will likely become more commonplace in the coming decades even if…
Changes in average start dates and lengths of the four seasons in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes for 1952, 2011 and 2100. Credit: Wang et al…
This artistic diagram of the subsea and coastal permafrost ecosystems emphasizes greenhouse gas production and release. Sandia National Laboratories geosciences engineer Jennifer Frederick is one…
A compilation of sea butterflies “Limacina retroversa” captured during the AMT27 ocean expedition. Credit: Lisette Mekkes & Katja Peijnenburg, Naturalis The oceans are becoming more…
A digital twin of the Earth is to simulate the Earth system comprehensively and at high resolution and serve, for example, as a basis for…
The system lowered the temperature inside a test system in an outdoor environment under direct sunlight by more than 12 degrees Celsius (22 degrees Fahrenheit).…
Greenland glaciers 2018. Credit: NIOZ, Kim Sauter A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 years. During ice ages, the global mean sea…
This map of the Earth shows the spatial pattern of temperature variance by percentage. The most variance is seen in the tropics with less at…
The study examined plankton in freshwater ponds exposed to seven years of experimental warming. Credit: University of Exeter Rising temperatures could reduce the efficiency of…
Plankton-feeding fishes often dominate the fish assemblage on oceanic coral reefs. Credit: Dr. Christina Skinner Study reveals open ocean waters once assumed to be unproductive…
The recently found Pharohylaeus lactiferus (Colletidae: Hylaeinae). Credit: James Dorey Photography Rainforest degradation, wildfire reducing species. A widespread field search for a rare Australian native…
(Left) Predicted change of ocean surface temperature in 2050-2099 relative to 1950-1999 using an ensemble of climate models. (Right) Predicted change in amplitude of rainfall…
Scanning electron microscopy image of ragweed pollen. Credit: Lewis Ziska If you live with seasonal allergies and feel like the pollen seasons feel longer and…
Bye-bye, burners. To curb climate change, many experts have called for a massive shift from fossil fuels to electricity. The goal is to electrify processes…
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna. A new study…
Sahas Barve, a Peter Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, led a new study to examine feathers across 249 species of…
A scientist on the French Antarctic resupply vessel L’Astrolabe drops an XBT probe to measure the temperature of the ocean, to a depth of 800…