Schematic figure of the processes included in the Community Water Model. Credit: IIASA The growing global population and continued economic development will likely require a…
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The ancient philosopher Plato conjectured that the universe was composed of particular geometric shapes; the earth, of cubes. Findings from a multidisciplinary research team found…
A map of the Earth showing the present-day deviation from expected magnetic field direction. Strong deviations are in yellow-orange, and little deviations are in blue.…
Potential geoengineering methods for injecting sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to create sulfuric acid clouds that limit global warming. Credit: AGU/Brian West The technology’s…
Image of Utah’s Great Salt Lake and its surroundings captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on March 17, 2019. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data…
As need for cooling rises in step with world temperatures, energy-efficient, climate-friendly appliances are critical to reaching Paris Agreement goals; 3.6 billion appliances in use…
July 9, 2020 When the usually chilly Great Lakes feel like bath water, you know it has been a warm summer. When the water is…
The Hooker River in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, Aotearoa New Zealand. Credit: University of Canterbury Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names, and…
Coastal areas around the world – such as the Zambezi River Delta shown in a Landsat 8 satellite image – are contending with the consequences…
A dinosaur-like reptile leaves muddy footprints along the shoreline of a lake during a rainstorm some 234 million years ago in northwestern Argentina. Credit: Jorge…
A visualization of global methane on January 26, 2018. Red shows areas with higher concentrations of methane in the atmosphere. Credit: Cindy Starr, Kel Elkins,…
June 26, 2020 In southern South America, clouds often rule the skies. But in June 2020, just the right weather patterns were in place to…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017-19), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the busy maritime traffic…
A phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea turned surface waters a milky blue in July 2016. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz and Joshua Stevens, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response,…
NASA’s AIRS instrument captured this image of Tropical Storm Fay around 2 p.m. local time on July 10, 2020, as the storm swept through New…
Credit: Dr Dimitar Epihov 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Could be Absorbed From the Atmosphere Each Year by Applying Rock Dust to Farmland Adding crushed…
Credit: Chris Fogwill, Author provided As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years.…
A checkerboard pattern of low (blue) and high (red) pressure areas moving eastward through time, generated by just two of the ringing vibrations of the…
A huge iceberg called A-68 calved from the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017. Three years on, it is in open…
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season…