Participants in a sea ice measurement campaign including the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, are taking samples of the Arctic sea ice at Spitzbergen. Examining these samples helps them to better understand the factors that influence the development of...
This map shows the changing US CO2 footprint around the world between 1970 and 2008. Red hotspots illustrated where the US carbon footprint has increased, and in blue, decreased. The carbon footprint has gone down in some parts of...
Human carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning and other sources have been mapped from OCO-2's global dataset.Credits: World Bank/Kim Eun Yeul
Scientists have produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely from satellite...
The year 2015 was the warmest on record for Oregon, resulting in low snowpacks and less water in many lakes and rivers. Pictured is Wallowa Lake in northeastern Oregon.Credit: Oregon State University
The western-most region of the continental United States...
While it is well known that changes to the mean climate can affect ecosystems, little is known about the impact of short-term extreme climatic events (ECEs) such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall or droughts.Credit: © DC Gardens / Flickr
Increasingly frequent...
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....
Lavezzi Island (Corsica, France). Credit: Daniel Pavon, IMBE, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
Southern Spain will become desert and deciduous forests will vanish from much of the Mediterranean basin unless global warming is reined in sharply, according to a...
A new study finds that just a few natural gas wells account for more than half of the total volume of leaked methane gas in the United States. Fixing leaks at those top emitters could significantly reduce leaks of...
Credit:University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Areas of the Arctic play a larger role than previously thought in the global nitrogen cycle—the process responsible for keeping a critical element necessary for life flowing between the atmosphere, the land and oceans....
Heidi Vreeland, lead author on the new paper looking at roadside trash burning in India, stands in front of a giant trash fire in Nicaragua.Credit: Duke University
Samples of smoke particles emanating from burning roadside trash piles in India have...
For a pair of recent studies, UCI and NASA JPL scientists examined three neighboring glaciers in West Antarctica that are melting and retreating at different rates. The Smith, Pope and Kohler glaciers flow into the Dotson and Crosson ice...
