Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Poul Christoffersen Researchers have observed extremely high rates of melting…
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Germany’s icebreaking research vessel Polarstern (operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research). Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge AWI experts…
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…
Hot and cold beneath Tonga volcano. Credit: © Planetary Visions (ESA/Planetary Visions) The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the…
Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age. As ice sheets…
Geoengineering aims to intervene in Earth’s climate to fight global warming. A group of 60 scientists called for a moratorium on solar geoengineering last month,…
A slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. A team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers…
Ultra-Low Velocity Zones sit between the Earth’s outer core and lower mantle. Researchers have uncovered the most detail ever of the mysterious structures laying between…
The research team finds Atlantic cod in the Arctic Ocean. Credit: UFA Show & Factual, Germany Single individuals of Atlantic cod and squid occur much…
May 25, 2021 While in orbit over Egypt, an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) captured a photograph of this heart-shaped basin bordering the…
Anna Ruth Halberstadt conducting field research in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Credit: Anna Ruth Halberstadt Discrepancy between terrestrial and marine data resolved; shows that ice…
The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (38 miles) into the atmosphere. When an underwater volcano erupted near…
Collecting water samples from the Hudson River. Credit: Adam Steckley More than 70% of microplastics found in samples from oceans and rivers could come from…
In 18 zones of the U.S. West, plant water sensitivity is high (>1.5), and the vapor pressure deficit is rising faster than average. Because both…
Scientist investigating coastal erosion caused by thawing permafrost near Bykovsky Peninsula, Laptev Sea, Siberia, Russia. Credit: AWI/Paul Overduin Erosion is destroying the coasts of the…
Ice flow velocities for Andean glaciers. Credit: © Romain Millan, Jean-Baptiste Barré / CNRS / IGE – Map data : Mapbox / OpenStreetMap / Maxar…
Photo of the Miami blue butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri). Recent research suggests that changes in precipitation related to climate change will have a greater impact…
A SERS-based breathalyzer can distinguish volatile organic compounds in the breath of COVID-positive people in less than 5 minutes. Credit: Shi Xuan Leong and Yong…
February 7, 2022 Landsat 9 completed its own pass last week in time for the big game. Passes will be flying today in Los Angeles…
Left: Subsurface CO2 storage. Right: CO2 migration pattern in a digitized rock sample obtained from pore-scale two-phase flow simulation. The simulation was carried out on…