Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea captured August 14, 2011.Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, CC BY 2.0
Phytoplankton are the foundation of ocean life, providing the energy that supports nearly all marine species. Levels of phytoplankton in an...
The image on the left shows the 31-year average snow water equivalent in the Sierra Nevada mountains compared with the snow water equivalent in 2015.Credit:Steve Margulis/UCLA
Even with this winter’s strong El Niño, the Sierra Nevada snowpack will likely take...
Blood Falls is a famous iron-rich outflow of water that scientists suspected was connected to a water source that may have been trapped under an Antarctic glacier for more than a million years.
Credit: Erin Pettit
A research team led by...
Global cloud patterns are shown. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego-led research team analyzing satellite cloud records has found that the cloudy storm tracks on Earth are moving toward...
The oceans act as a carbon sink and have already absorbed more than 40% of anthropogenic carbon emissions. The majority of this CO2 has been taken up by the Southern Ocean making these waters hotspots of ocean acidification (OA).
Lead...
Associate Professor Vickie Bennett (left), Professor Allen Nutman (centre), and Dr Clark Friend (right), examining the rocks in Greenland.Credit: Courtesy of Yuri Amelin
In an extraordinary find, a team of Australian researchers have uncovered the world's oldest fossils in a...
Snow takes up airborne particulate matter and alters the concentrations of different nanoparticles, the smallest particles found in air pollution.
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With spring finally here and warmer temperatures just around the corner, snow will slowly melt away,...
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction,...
Taken from the International Space Station in 2016, this picture of the southern tip of Greenland shows the island's vast ice sheet fringed by glaciers that flow into the sea. The glaciers and ice sheet of Greenland cover a...
The deadly volcanic eruption of Anak Krakatoa in 2018 unleashed a wave at least 100m high that could have caused widespread devastation had it been travelling in another direction, new research shows.
Over 400 people lost their lives in December...
Dead trees in the Sierra National Forest in April 2016.Credit: USFS Region 5
Why do some trees die in a drought and others don't? And how can we predict where trees are most likely to die in future droughts?
Scientists from...
