An increasingly warm and ice-free Arctic Ocean has, in recent decades, led to more moisture in higher latitudes. This moisture is transported south by cyclonic…
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An artist’s concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench.…
MIT scientists confirm that Earth harbors a “stabilizing feedback” mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to pull the climate back from the…
Installed on the space station in July 2022, EMIT orbits Earth about once every 90 minutes, to map the world’s mineral-dust sources. This includes the…
The deep valleys transported vast amounts of meltwater away from under the ice sheets that covered the UK and Europe. Credit: James Kirkham / BAS…
The cloudy Southern Ocean shows an improved radiation budget in the latest IPCC climate models, but there are still significant biases in the simulated cloud…
Artistic reconstruction of the reptile adaptive radiation in a terrestrial ecosystem during the warmest period in Earth’s history. The image depicts a massive, big-headed, carnivorous…
Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images show the stark difference between August 2021 and August 2022 on the Rhine River near Cologne. Water levels on the Rhine…
Holgate Glacier, shown here in June 2009, terminates on the coast and is a popular kayaking destination, especially in summer when the ice is calving.…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 animation shows a part of the Po Valley, near Piacenza, and reveals how the river has significantly shrunk between June 2020 and…
View of the Swiss alps, from Pischahorn towards the summits called Plattenhörner. Credit: Sabine Rumpf Global warming has a particularly pronounced impact on the Alpine…
New research findings answer long-standing question over the importance of summertime warmth in melting ice sheets. Researchers have finally answered a long-standing question over the…
Cotton grasses on the banks of the Lower Ilerney, Russia. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Stefan Kruse Research shows that only ambitious climate protection measures can still…
An entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds, trioxides, has been discovered under atmospheric conditions. For the first time, an entirely new class of super-reactive…
A new study has revealed super cyclones, the most intense form of tropical storms, are likely to have a much more devastating impact on people…
EMIT is being developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is scheduled to launch in 2022. The instrument will observe Earth from outside the International…
A new research study has revealed the most intense heatwaves ever across the world – and remarkably some of these went almost unnoticed decades ago.…
Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Grey tones depict water vapor.…
During the dry season, evaporating water leaves behind trona crystals, which grow on the lakebed of Lake Magadi, the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift…
The Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area for the year on October 7, 2021, and ranks as the 13th largest since 1979. Scientists from…