A comet impact 12,800 years ago spurred the transition to agriculture in Syria’s Abu Hureyra, with global evidence linking cosmic events to environmental change and…
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Trade-wind clouds near Barbados: one plane was used to drop hundreds of atmospheric probes from an altitude of nine kilometers. Credit: MPI-M An airborne campaign…
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study published in Science Advances found that most of the world’s ocean…
Interest in African dust began over 50 years ago when it was discovered that it was frequently transported across the Atlantic in great quantities. New…
Mocked up illustration of touchdown impact on Antarctica. Credit: Mark A. Garlick Research led by the University of Kent’s School of Physical Sciences has found…
Illustration of a space hurricane, created using the observation data. Credit: Qing-He Zhang, Shandong University The first observations of a space hurricane have been revealed…
January 11, 2020 Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971. Between January 7–9, 2021, a moist, low-pressure weather system over the…
A commercial airplane on a runway. Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to…
The South Pole Telescope at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, with a bright aurora in July 2020. Credit: Geoff Chen Stars viewed from a…
How’s the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in…
Marco Tedesco (left) and a colleague measure reflectance on the Greenland ice sheet during a 2018 expedition. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute Last year was one…
Overview of electron observations (top) and predictions made by PreMevE 2.0. All panels present for the same 1289?day interval starting from 2013/02/20. Credit: Los Alamos…
The four US weather regimes (clockwise from top left): Pacific Trough, Arctic High, Alaskan Ridge, Arctic Low. Red indicates warmer conditions and blue colder conditions.…
In a new study published today (December 9, 2019) in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase…
Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals? University of South Carolina archaeologist finds evidence in South Carolina to support controversial theory. A…
This is an illustration of the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Credit:…