October 18, 2021 Volcanoes emit sulfur dioxide — a pungent gas that reacts with oxygen and moisture in the air to produce a haze called…
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As climate change amplifies the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other extreme events in the United States and around the world, and the populations…
How has scientific agreement on the anthropogenic nature of climate change evolved in 10 years? Scientific support for the link between human activity and climate…
October 12, 1987 October 9, 2021 As temperatures rise on the Tibetan Plateau, lakes are growing larger and deeper. Glaciologists often call the Tibetan Plateau and its…
[embedded content]Credit: All-sky camera, Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory (KAGO) within the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF). Data provided as part of ESA’s Space…
September 8, 2021 Spencer Gulf in South Australia hosts the world’s largest cuttlefish mass spawning event. Each winter from May to August, thousands of Australian giant…
The economic consequences of the COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory…
Cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere may be important for cloud formation. Credit: DTU Space Large Effect of Solar Activity on Earth’s Energy Budget This…
Illustration to accompany Nature Communications paper, “Seismological expression of the iron spin crossover in ferropericlase in the Earth’s lower mantle.” Credit: Nicoletta Barolini/Columbia Engineering Multidisciplinary…
The top painting is based on pre-colonization Indigenous cities and communities with buildings and a diverse maize-based agriculture. The second is the same area today,…
Haiti earthquake damage. Assistant professors Camilla Cattania and William Frank discuss the science behind the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti. On August 14, 2021,…
October 10, 2021 The pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and markets in ways that have led to backlogs of cargo ships at key ports.…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…
Eroding cliff bluffs adjacent to Elson Lagoon near Utqiagvik, Alaska. Credit: Michael Rawlins New research from UMass Amherst shines light on poorly understood processes of…
By the end of the century, extreme sea levels along coastlines across the world will become 100 times more frequent. Global warming will cause extreme…
Although sun radiation was relatively low, the temperature on the young Earth was warm. An international team of geoscientists has found important clues that high…
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on October 10, shows the new flow of lava from the volcano erupting on the Spanish island…
Over the last year and a half, the 1-in-100-year Covid-19 pandemic drove millions of children into hunger. But every four to seven years, an El…
The view from the DC-8 research aircraft as flies through the marine boundary layer, the portion of the atmosphere close to the ocean’s surface where…
2012 – 2018 Scientists reveal details of a rare type of lightning that stretches into space. A rare type of lightning has had scientists scratching…