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Key visual ‘Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook.’ Credit: University of Hamburg/CLICCS Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) publishes a new,…
Physicists led by the University of Iowa report definitive evidence that auroras that light up the sky in the high latitudes are caused by electrons…
A cut-away of Earth’s interior shows the solid iron inner core (red) slowly growing by freezing of the liquid iron outer core (orange). Seismic waves…
University of Cambridge experiment evaluated the effect of human decisions on climate reconstructions. The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate…
Noctilucent or “night shining” clouds forming in the mesosphere as seen from the International Space Station on May 29, 2016. These clouds form between 47…
Credit: NASA/Noctilucent Clouds, Jan Erik Paulsen; Barrel Image, NASA / NSF. The Earth’s atmosphere has four primary layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. These…
Schematic image of low-purity CO2 storage with the membrane-based Direct Air Capture (DAC). Credit: Takeshi Tsuji New study shows that geological storage of low-purity carbon…
Artist’s rendition of the AIM spacecraft in orbit above Earth with the sun breaking over the globe’s horizon. Credit: Emily Hill Launched in 2007, the…
Ice core researcher Don Voigt examines an ice core at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) project. Credit: Photograph by Gifford Wong A…
Nation’s ability to predict sea-level rise boosted with record going back to 10,000 years ago. Climate scientists at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore)…
The research vessel Polarstern drifting in Arctic sea ice. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning up to…
Gulf of Alaska. Using information from ESA’s CryoSat mission, new research shows that between 2010 and 2019, the Gulf of Alaska lost 76 Gt of…
Launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a new UNEP/FAO report says the world must deliver on existing commitments to restore at least 1 billion…
Researchers have mapped large, intermittent sources of methane emissions (shown flaring here) across the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin, located in western Texas and southeastern…
Drs. Minter and Bath Enright, of the University of Portsmouth’s School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, studied the Burgess Shale area of British Columbia,…
The relationships among CAW, heatwaves, wildfires, and pollution. Anomalous anticyclones characterize the atmospheric circulation that develops concomitantly over the three remote regions around the summertime…
A satellite image of the June 2020 trans-Atlantic dust storm. Credit: NASA/NOAA For two weeks in June 2020, a massive dust plume from Saharan Africa…
Small marine “snowflakes” are very important for the nutrient balance of the oceans. The particle shown here is highly magnified – in reality, small particles…