The reef at North Rock, Bermuda, similar to the reef (Sea Venture Shoals) where coral fragments were collected for this study. Credit: Stacy Peltier New…
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Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California – One of the Largest Fires on Record for Los Angeles County
Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California – One of the Largest Fires on Record for Los Angeles County
September 21, 2020. (Click image for high resolution version.) After burning more than 180 square miles (460 square kilometers) of the San Gabriel Mountains in…
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Rhodes Drive, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa. Researchers have discovered why the tropics and a handful of other areas across the globe…
Earth’s oceans help to slow global warming by absorbing carbon from our atmosphere – but fully observing this crucial process in the upper ocean and…
Although less than one percent of all water in the world is freshwater, it is what we drink and use for agriculture. In other words,…
With a launch planned in 2027, the Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter, CRISTAL, mission will carry, for the first time, a dual-frequency radar…
In this image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on September 16, fires can be seen burning on the west coast of the US, with…
Map shows the Levant region (shaded in orange), which is the western part of the overall Fertile Crescent region (shaded in yellow); the study areas…
Sea ice can act as an agent of climate change on a variety of timescales and spatial scales—it’s not just a passive responder to change.…
This map overlays the probability of burn severity in California’s northern coastal mountains, as forecasted in a UC Davis study, with burn perimeters of wildfires…
An artist’s rendering of undersea earthquake waves. Credit: Caltech Despite climate change being most obvious to people as unseasonably warm winter days or melting glaciers,…
August 27, 2020 The Pantanal, a vast floodplain in South America, is among the largest wetlands in the world. The mosaic of grasslands, shrublands, forests,…
NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Sally at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 16 about 8 hours after landfall in southern Alabama. Sally…
A NASA aircraft equipped with Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) flew above California fires on September 3 and 10 to examine the ground…
Summary of major extinction events through time, highlighting the new, Carnian Pluvial Episode at 233 million years ago. Credit: D. Bonadonna/ MUSE, Trento It’s not…
On September 15 at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 UTC), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed the most powerful thunderstorms (yellow) were…
This visualization shows a three-day average of carbon monoxide concentrations, from Sept. 6 to 14, in the atmosphere over California due to wildfires. Higher concentrations…
Captured by GHGSat’s Claire mission on May 21, 2020, this image shows methane emissions from an onshore oil & gas facility in the Caspian Sea…
A living foraminifera, a type of marine plankton, that researchers grew in laboratory culture. To reconstruct past climate, fossilized specimens are collected from deep sea…
Bezymianny is an active stratovolcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia. Credit: GFZ For the first time, long-term photogrammetic series document the “life cycle”…