An example of boreal peatlands and forest in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Credit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University A group of 59 international scientists, led by researchers…
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Looking out at the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain from the cave entrance at the Pinnacle Point, South Africa, research site–left, 200,000 years ago during glacial phases and…
The 75-station pattern is typical for summer and fall cruises by CalCOFI, which has collected data on marine life and ocean conditions off the California…
Unlike our geographic north pole, which is in a fixed location, magnetic north wanders. This has been known since it was first measured in 1831,…
Radioactive period following nuclear bomb tests changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites. Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have…
This image is an example of Level-2B Rayleigh wind velocity in meters per second over Europe on May 6, 2020, at 06:00 UTC. The image…
A new study shows that extreme, sometimes potentially fatal, mixtures of heat and humidity are emerging across the globe. This map shows documented instances, with…
Green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea as seen from space via the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed…
Trees are a small piece of what needs to be a broader strategy of fighting climate change, says ecologist Karen Holl. Credit: Pedro Brancalion Campaigns…
Sediment cores collected from the offshore fan deposited by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers shows that a shift towards warmer and wetter climate over the…
A timelapse showing global observations made with Proba-V’s Vegetation instrument from September 2018 to September 2019, created through the Terrascope open source Earth observation platform.…
This graphic illustrates the vapor buoyancy effect, in which cold, humid air rises because it is lighter than dry air. Credit: Da Yang/UC Davis The…
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano in 2018 was one of the most destructive in this volcano’s recorded history. Why this happened has remained a…
This shows the amount of ice gained or lost by Antarctica between 2003 and 2019. Dark reds and purples show large average rates of ice…
This image shows a sample of abnormal methane concentrations over 2019. The size and color of the circles indicate the size and intensity of the…
(Click image for full view.) August 10, 2018. Mines across the United States churn out all kinds of minerals, from potash to iron to gold.…
Ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland account for roughly a half-inch of sea level rise between 2003 and 2019. Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser…
Microplastics are delivered to the ocean through rivers carrying industrial and domestic wastewater, carried down submarine canyons by powerful avalanches of sediment (turbidity currents) and…
A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases…
This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or the magnetosphere. Earth’s magnetic field origins are still a mystery, a new MIT study finds. Credit:…