A team led by University of Minnesota researchers has discovered that deep-sea bacteria dissolve carbon-containing rocks, releasing excess carbon into the ocean and atmosphere. The findings will allow scientists to better estimate the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's...
A simple molecule in the atmosphere that acts as a "detergent" to breakdown methane and other greenhouse gases has been found to recycle itself to maintain a steady global presence in the face of rising emissions, according to new...
Local extinctions are almost twice as common in tropical species than temperate species.Image Credit: Flickr/Mariya Chorna
Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research, publishing on December 8th...
Compare the extension of older sea ice in the Arctic in September 1984 and September 2016. The older ice is thicker and more resistant to melt than new ice, so it protects the sea ice cap during warm summers....
Global sea level rise is not cruising along at a steady 3 mm per year, it's accelerating a little every year, like a driver merging onto a highway, according to a powerful new assessment led by CIRES Fellow Steve...
Car drivers in London are causing the most pollution per commuter, a new study says.
Car drivers in London are causing the most pollution per commuter, a new study by the University of Surrey has found. But drivers themselves are...
A collaborative research project between the Universities of Manchester, Utrecht, and Durham, and the National Oceanography Centre has revealed for the first time how submarine sediment avalanches can transport microplastics from land into the deep ocean.
The study also revealed...
Figure shows how ocean currents changes with temperature. Top: Ocean currents today. Bottom: Ocean currents during glacial periods.
Credit: From authors (Watson et al.)
Scientists have struggled for the past few decades to understand why air temperatures around Antarctica over the...
Human beings take up a lot of real estate -- around 50-70 percent of the Earth's land surface. And our increasing footprint affects how mammals of all sizes, from all over the planet, move.
A study recently published by Science found that,...
Sarqardliup glacier, west Greenland. Photo: Shfaqat Abbas Khan
A new study on the Greenland Ice Sheet provides valuable insight on climate change, using unique research methods to establish new estimates of ice loss for both modern and ancient times, says...
Every fall more than half of the coho salmon that return to Puget Sound's urban streams die before they can spawn. In some streams, all of them die. But scientists didn't know why.
Now a team led by researchers at...
