Islands in the Maldives – where sandy or gravel islands sit on top of coral reef platforms – are among those that could be affected…
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Two satellite images show vegetation change from fog in two areas of the Namib desert. The left image shows the areas during periods of lower…
Rice University scientists are analyzing the role of ferredoxin proteins produced when viral phages alter electron transfer in ocean-dwelling, photosynthetic bacteria that produce oxygen and…
Mangroves in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Kerrylee Rogers/University of Wollongong Mangrove trees – valuable coastal ecosystems found in Florida and other warm climates – won’t survive…
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
MIT researchers find that extratropical storm tracks — the blue regions of storminess in the Earth’s middle latitudes — would change significantly with solar geoengineering…
An aerial view of a tropical forest along the eastern Pacific Ocean shoreline of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Credit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute All living…
Some of the 12,000 plant and animal species considered in this study. Credit: © Gaël Grenouillet Global warming is causing species to search for more…
Forests are becoming shorter and younger because of a range of factors, a new study says. PNNL-led researchers: Conditions that started decades ago are changing…
Climate change could cause abrupt shifts in the amount of vegetation growing in parts of Great Britain, new research shows. The University of Exeter studied…
An olive sea snake (Aipysurus laevis) foraging in Western Australia. Credit: Bruno Simoes, University of Plymouth Sea snakes first entered the marine environment 15 million…
Normal and malformed spores from East Greenland. Credit: John Marshall Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years…
MIT researchers have developed a new automated AI system with improved computational efficiency and a much smaller carbon footprint. The researchers’ system trains one large…
Original artwork depicting the moment the asteroid struck in present-day Mexico. Credit: Chase Stone New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that…
Life in the deep sea (>200m). Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute The world’s deep oceans are warming at a slower rate than the surface, but it’s…
Brazilian cow nose ray, never known north of the Gulf of Mexico, found in the Atlantic off New Jersey by DNA scientists. Credit: Jacques Burkhardt…
Shute Creek Gas Facility in Wyoming, USA, captures CO2 from gas streams. Credit: ExxonMobil The capture and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground is one…
Dr. Matt Davey sampling snow algae at Lagoon Island, Antarctica. Credit: Sarah Vincent Scientists have created the first-ever large-scale map of microscopic algae as they…
Hurricane Harvey over North America in 2017 from GOES-16. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. Credit: UW-Madison SSEC In almost every region of the…
An example of boreal peatlands and forest in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Credit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University A group of 59 international scientists, led by researchers…