Smoke rises from a fire burning deep in peat soils. Credit: Chris Lowie/USFWS Imperial College London researchers have simulated for the first time how soil…
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The loss of huge ice masses can contribute to the warming that is causing this loss and further risks. A new study now quantifies this…
The research vessel JOIDES Resolution in Fremantle (Australia) the morning before the ship sailed on Expedition 356. The results are based on samples taken from…
The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy, and land resources has found that globalization may be decreasing,…
2007 – 2018 Global sea level has been rising at a rate of 0.1 inches (3.3 millimeters) per year in the past three decades. The…
Illustration depicting the onset of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction based on findings of Jurikova et al. (2020). Ocean acidification and vanishing marine life in the…
A new international study led by Monash University climate scientists has revealed that ice loss in Antarctica persisted for many centuries after it was initiated…
A rookery of black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) nest at a windy, exposed tussac grassland on West Point Island, Falkland Islands. Credit: Dulcinea Groff Seabird poop…
Dogwhelks feed on barnacles on the shores of Swan’s Island in Maine. A new study documents the decline of these and three other intertidal species…
Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. Now,…
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef shows populations of its small, medium and large corals have all declined in the past three decades.…
Laser technology has been used to measure the volume and biomass of giant Californian redwood trees for the first time, records a new study by…
This data image shows the monthly average sea surface temperature for May 2015. Between 2013 and 2016, a large mass of unusually warm ocean water…
In this illustration, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft – the world’s latest sea-level satellite – orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
Hooker Lake, New Zealand (2016). Credit: Jenna Sutherland Meltwater lakes that form at glacier margins cause ice to recede much further and faster compared to…
Artist’s reconstruction of a savannah in Middle Pleistocene Southeast Asia. In the foreground Homo erectus, stegodon, hyenas, and Asian rhinos are depicted. Water buffalo can…
Infographic describing the study’s findings. Credit: Bob Wilder / University at Buffalo The research places the ice sheet’s modern decline in historical context, providing a…
The study is the first to measure vegetation changes across the Arctic tundra, from Alaska and Canada to Siberia, using satellite data from Landsat, a…
China’s success in improving air quality by cutting polluting emissions may have a negative knock-on effect on climate change overall, a new study has found.…
The CENOGRID shows Earth has experienced four distinct climate states over the last 66 million years. The detailed climatic changes of the past can be…