Forecasters at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued the U.S. Winter Outlook today, saying that La Nina is expected to influence winter conditions this year. The Climate Prediction Center issued a La Nina watch this month, predicting the climate phenomenon...
Greenhouse gas emissions by year. The WMO Global Atmosphere Watch Programme coordinates systematic observations and analysis of greenhouse gases and other trace species. Fifty one countries contributed data for the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.Credit: Image courtesy of World Meteorological Organization
Globally...
Wearing a virtual reality headset, a researcher tries out the Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience, a new VR science education tool. (Image credit: Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab)
Free science education software, available to anyone with virtual reality gear, holds promise...
Sea level change resulting from Greenland ice melt, derived from NASA GRACE measurements. Black circles show locations of the best historical water level records, which underestimate global average sea level rise due to Greenland melt by about 25 percent.Credits:...
This GPS unit is one of more than 50 that researchers have planted in the Greenland bedrock to measure ice loss. Researchers in the Greenland GPS Network, led by Michael Bevis at The Ohio State University, have discovered that...
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A new global assessment of forests -- perhaps the largest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity -- suggests that, on average, a 10% loss in biodiversity leads to a 2 to 3% loss in the productivity, including biomass, that...
On Oct. 13 the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an infrared image of redeveloped Tropical Depression Aere off the central Vietnam coast. Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL
Tropical Cyclones sometimes reform after the become remnant low pressure areas, but it's...
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A new study says that human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the U.S. West over the last 30 years. According to the study, since 1984 heightened temperatures and resulting aridity have...
The Ocean Cleanup concludes first-ever reconnaissance flight over ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today presented the initial findings of its Aerial Expedition -- a series of...
Researchers at Princeton University analyzed ice cores collected in Greenland and Antarctica to determine levels of atmospheric oxygen over the last 800,000 years.Credit: Stolper, et al.
Princeton University researchers have compiled 30 years of data to construct the first ice...
Sediment samples taken from 17 marine locations around the world reveal a 2.5-million-year cool period beginning about 7 million years, a time of sweeping ecological changes across the planet.Credit: Herbert Lab / Brown University
Around 7 million years ago, landscapes...
