The crack through Larsen C ice shelf is visible as a dark line from bottom right to top left of this satellite image. Image captured on 26 October 2016.Credit: Image courtesy of British Antarctic Survey
A huge iceberg, roughly the...
Humans likely established permanent settlements on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau between 13,000-7,400 years ago, according to new research published this week in the journal Science.
That conclusion challenges the previously held view that permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau...
Researchers at Yale University show that the possibility of a collapsed AMOC under global warming is hugely underestimated.Image Credit: Flickr/Vanessa Vancour
One of the world's largest ocean circulation systems may not be as stable as today's weather models predict,...
Where is the geographic center of a state, country or a continent?
It's a question fraught with uncertainty. Do you include water in your calculation? What about islands? What happens when the shoreline shifts?
The U.S. Geological Survey alluded to these...
Credit: University of Leeds
Holidaymakers concerned about fresh volcanic eruptions causing flight-disrupting ash clouds might be reassured by a study setting out the first reliable estimates of their frequency.
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While the University of Leeds-led research suggests that ash...
Scientists at Lamont are using all types of scientific platforms for real-time data analysis, from seafloor to space. Credit: Columbia University
Across the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus, scientists are exploring undersea volcanoes, monitoring coastal erosion along hard-to-reach shorelines, and studying...
Distribution of the atmospheric ammonia concentration in June, July, and August 2008 at 15 km height as observed by MIPAS. Bright areas are measurement gaps due to high cloud cover.Credit: Michael Höpfner/KIT
Population is growing, climate is warming -- hence,...
Researchers found that nearly 10,000 metric tons -- or 22 million pounds -- of plastic debris enter the Great Lakes every year from the United States and Canada. Credit: © GabPRR/ Flickr
A new study by Rochester Institute of Technology...
Surface burning of oil slicks during the Deepwater Horizon event. Credit: David Valentine
The oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) rig in 2010 contaminated more than 1,000 square miles...
Artist’s conception of comet approaching Earth-like planet. The explosion of a comet near our planet’s surface, it was proposed, might have lofted enough dust and debris into Earth’s atmosphere to temporarily dim the sun. Credit: Shutterstock
It all began innocently...
Two of the six limestone block samples used in University of Sussex's Permafrost Lab were from the north face of Zugspitze (the highest mountain in Germany). Credit: Technical University of Munich
The risk of mountain rock falls in regions with...
