Satellite image of Turkey acquired on February 11, 2022, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9. Satellite image of Turkey acquired on February…
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Melting in cracks and crevasses where ice enters the ocean at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is faster than scientists thought. Credit: NASA Data come from an…
Sandia National Laboratories bioengineer Susan Rempe, left, and chemical engineer Tuan Ho peer through an artistic representation of the chemical structure of a kind of…
UC Davis Project Scientist John N. Williams uses a drip torch to light a prescribed burn at Shaver Lake in the Sierra National Forest. Credit:…
An earthquake in Alaska causing seismic waves to penetrate the Earth’s innermost inner core. Credit: Drew Whitehouse, Son Phạm and Hrvoje Tkalčic. Data captured from…
Nodules on the seafloor at the study site, photographed by an underwater camera. Credit: YAO Huiqiang Antarctic bottom water (AABW) covers more than two-thirds of…
A research camp at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide. Credit: Bradley Markle University of Colorado at Boulder scientists and an international team of…
A new study led by University of Chicago geophysicist Sunyoung Park suggests there may be a layer of surprisingly fluid rock located in the Earth’s…
Fire damage in the city of Detroit, Oregon, and the Oregon Cascades can be seen in this aerial image. Credit: Oregon State University Twenty-seven global…
Image of tropical cyclone Freddy acquired on February 21, 2023, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite. The tropical cyclone…
The icefin robot under the ice near McMurdo research station, operated by the US Antarctic Program. Credit: Rob Robbins USAP Results provide close-up view of…
Image acquired on February 14, 2023, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Although the outbreak of fires in early February…
A schematic depiction of the burial and deep subduction of organic carbon. Credit: R. Dasgupta/Rice University Rising global temperatures are leading to a decrease in…
The Liverpool Land peninsula, on the east coast of Greenland, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. The peninsula is visible at the top partially covered…
Updated land-elevation models reveal many coastal regions are lower than we thought, according to a new study in Earth’s Future. The first 1 to 2…
Doomsday Glacier Is “In Trouble” – Surprising Results From Underwater Robot Close-Up View of Melting
The icefin robot under the ice near McMurdo research station, operated by the US Antarctic Program. Credit: Rob Robbins USAP New data from an international…
Greenhouse gas emissions refer to the release of harmful gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, into the atmosphere. These emissions are a…
A new study expands on previous work that was featured in the most recent major climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).…
Sea level rise contributions from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and maps of projected 2150 CE Antarctic ice sheet surface elevation following different greenhouse…
The team of scientists descends into Bexanka Cave. One of the most beautiful caves in the Arbailles basin, it is suspected that sulfuric acid played…