This natural color image of the San Francisco Bay was captured by Landsat 9’s new Operational Land Imager 2 instrument. Landsat 9 which launched Sept.…
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The number of tree species and individuals per continent in the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative database, one of two databases used in the new study.…
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels today are higher than at any point in the past 800,000 years or more. During a year when terms like carbon…
The nationwide simulation of the 100-year design flood from fluvial, pluvial, and coastal sources. Credit: Fathom (www.fathom.global) Climate change could result in the financial toll…
Genetic material found in permafrost sediments from the Yukon contains rich information about ancient ecosystems. Credit: Julius Csotonyi/Government of Yukon In 2010, small cores of…
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland airborne mission found that Greenland’s glaciers that empty into the ocean, like Apusiaajik Glacier shown here, are at greater risk of…
Daisen Kofun, aerial view. Credit: © Ministry of Territory, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, under kind permission A research group at the Politecnico di Milano analyzed…
The Sustainability Hub at the University of Plymouth has been retrofitted with an exterior living wall façade, comprised of a flexible felt fabric sheet system…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020-21), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho – a…
Stanford researchers found that gas stoves emit far more methane than once thought, and most of the emissions occur while the stove is off. During…
Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii. Located near Naples, Italy, Vesuvius last had a violent eruption in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War. It…
Clouds are an essential part of the Earth’s climate. Clouds block the sun and shade the ground, cooling the planet’s surface and the atmosphere. They…
A typical seafood meal. Credit: Farhad Ibrahimzade As a major source of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, food production has long occupied an important place in the…
A-68A’s position on December 17, 2020. Credit: British Antarctic Survey/ESA In July 2017, a giant iceberg, named A-68, snapped off Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf and…
Credit: NSF Argonne physicists say cold, dry is perfect for examining the oldest light in the universe. When your workplace is the South Pole, things…
Some bacterial “miners” that process soil nutrients are more efficient than others. Here, a top processor, Bradyrhizobium, consolidates its control of carbon from a glucose…
An American robin eats a winterberry. Small birds like robins typically disperse seeds over relatively short distances. Credit: Photo by Paul Vitucci Animal-dispersed plants’ ability…
The Sun rises in Midland, Michigan, shortly after 8 a.m. on January 13, 2017. Christian Collins/Flickr, CC BY-SA Above the equator, winter officially begins in…
The A68A iceberg with some smaller parts of ice that have broken off around it (November 21, 2020). Credit: MODIS image from NASA Worldview Snapshots…
Using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, the image shows the huge plume of sulfur dioxide on January 18, 2022, over Australia, more than 7000…