Active bedrock seepage with yellow-brown weathering fluids; Lushan – Taiwan. Credit: Kristen Cook (GFZ) Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide — in…
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At the fringes of the Greenland Ice Sheet, where glaciers are constantly melting, water rushes everywhere through an intricate system of lakes and streams that…
The melting rate of the Antarctic ice sheet is mainly controlled by the increase of ocean temperatures surrounding Antarctica. Using a new, higher-resolution climate model…
For the first time, researchers have been able to obtain data from underneath Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsday Glacier.” They find that the…
Published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group — including Jessica Hellmann from the University of…
The time between rainfalls has become longer and the rains occurred more erratically in the western U.S. during the last 50 years. Credit: Joel Biederman,…
Dr. Sebastian Rosier at Pine Island Glacier in 2015. Credit: Dr. Sebastian Rosier Researchers have confirmed for the first time that Pine Island Glacier in…
University of California, Irvine-led team reports that an increase in lightning will drive both wildfires and warming above Arctic Circle. In 2019, the National Weather…
Collaborative research shows more severe slowdowns in warmer regions like Africa and Latin America. The University of Maryland (UMD) has collaborated with Cornell University and…
Photo of Greenland’s Ice sheet. Credit: Joshua Brown, University of Vermont For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland’s ice sheet that…
Earth’s energy budget describes the balance between the radiant energy that reaches Earth from the sun and the energy that flows from Earth back out…
A NASA supercomputer model shows how greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) – a key driver of global warming – fluctuate in Earth’s atmosphere throughout…
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…
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 map of the Earth shows the spatial pattern of temperature variance by percentage. The most variance is seen in the tropics with less at…
Fish fecal pellets collected from the Santa Barbara Channel off California. Credit: Grace Saba New research has shown that carbon in feces, respiration, and other…
Schematic showing aerosol processes of climate relevance in the Arctic for polar night. Abbreviations stand for: INP — ice nucleating particles, IR — infrared. Red…
Why businesses need the climate-equivalent of a ‘weather service.’ The findings are published in the prestigious journal, Nature Climate Change, and calls on businesses, the financial…
Marine Heatwaves Becoming More Intense, More Frequent When thick, the surface layer of the ocean acts as a buffer to extreme marine heating—but a new…