Illustration of the Antarctic rainforest. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/James McKay Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate…
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This visualization shows the Gulf Stream’s sea surface currents and temperatures. Credit: MIT/JPL project entitled Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II…
Trilobite Fossil (Cheirurus ingricus). Trilobites are a group of marine arachnomorph arthropods that disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about…
Growing consumption of energy and fossil fuels over four decades did not play a significant role in increasing life expectancy across 70 countries. New research,…
A previously unknown significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists marveling at a once overlooked contributor to local coastal ecosystems —…
Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is the idea that adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere can reduce climate changes caused by greenhouse gases…
Black and Bloom field camp established on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet approximately 35km inland from the southwestern ice sheet margin. Note the…
Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several meters. A new study published in the journal Nature shows…
Understanding the Earth’s carbon cycle has important implications for understanding climate change and the health of biospheres. But scientists don’t yet understand how much carbon…
The polar jet stream. Credit: NASA/Trent L Schindler Jet Stream Not Getting ‘Wavier’ Despite Arctic Warming Rapid Arctic warming has not led to a “wavier”…
Researchers gathering data in a Siberian cave. Credit: University of Oxford Sea-Ice-Free Arctic Makes Permafrost Vulnerable to Thawing Permafrost is ground that remains frozen throughout…
Cardiff University scientists have shed new light on the Earth’s climate behavior during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago.…
World-renowned climate scientist J. Shukla calls the new paper by University of Maryland scientists ‘a very important paper in the history of predictability research.’ University…
The Program of the Antarctic Syowa Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere/Incoherent Scatter radar (PANSY radar) consisting of an active phased array of 1045 Yagi antennas. Credit: Taishi Hashimoto (NIPR)…
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite makes precise measurements of Earth’s carbon dioxide levels from space. Credit: NASA/JPL Carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s…
On the right, satellite composition of El Nino in 1997, and on the left, El Nino in 2015. Both were extreme El Nino events that…
Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica — the oldest yet recovered — that provide the first direct observations of prehistoric…
An artist’s conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Credit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D.…
New technique unexpectedly finds that black carbon in rivers and oceans differs significantly. In understanding the global carbon cycle, “black carbon” — decay-resistant carbon molecules…
This is an illustration of the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Credit:…