Herds of herbivores, such as horses, preserve the permafrost — even under strong global warming. Credit: Pleistocene Park New Mitigation Strategy Bears Great Potential Permafrost…
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A scorching heat wave led to temperature records in at least seven countries in Europe on July 25, 2019. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Rising global…
Greenland. Credit: I. Joughin, University of Washington According to a new report, Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s…
Photo of the Biofuels Cropping System Experiment in Michigan, taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Research conducted by Ben-Gurion University and Michigan State University.…
Arctic Ocean sea ice seen during a 2018 research cruise. Credit: San Nguyen Explanation is proposed for extra heat in the oceans. The Arctic has…
On February 6, 2020, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica. Thermometers at the Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the…
Humans are helping to increase the Earth’s plant and tree cover, which absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and cools our planet. However, the boom of…
A new study shows that half of all Arctic warming and corresponding sea-loss during the late 20th century was caused by ozone-depleting substances. Here, icebergs…
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since…
Cardiff University scientists have shed new light on the Earth’s climate behavior during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago.…
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate warming scenario, which…
The fate of emperor penguins is largely tied to sea ice, making them particulary vulnerable to warming. Credit: Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Emperor…
The Getz Ice Shelf in West Antarctica photographed from a NASA research airplane by Jeremy Harbeck, a sea ice scientist at NASA Goddard. The image…
Tropical convection between Fiji and New Zealand from the NASA DC-8 during the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission on February 5, 2017. Credit: Samuel Hall/National Center…
Australian hot and dry extremes can have devastating effects on human health and resources. Changes in springtime winds high above the South Pole are set…
This new porous coordination polymer has propeller-shaped molecular structures that enables selectively capturing CO2, and efficiently convert the CO2 into useful carbon materials. Credit: Illustration…
Comparison composition that shows Mer de Glace glacier from 1919 (left) to 2019 (right, in color). Credit: Walter Mittelholzer, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich & Dr. Kieran Baxter,…