The Jason series of US/European satellites can measure the height of the ocean surface.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The amount of sea level rise in the Pacific Ocean can be used to estimate future global surface temperatures, according to a new report led...
July 2016 was the warmest July in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Because the seasonal temperature cycle peaks in...
The single celled algae, diatoms, can be seen using Scanning Electron Microscopy. It can take up to a year to clean a sample enough to be able to take a picture like this.Credit: Ulrike Hoff
"The Arctic sea ice responded...
"The adoption potential of electric vehicles is remarkably similar across cities, from dense urban areas like New York, to sprawling cities like Houston. This goes against the view that electric vehicles -- at least affordable ones, which have limited...
Heliofungia behaviour as it's bleaching, captured by Brett Lewis and Dr Luke Nothdurft. Credit: Queensland University of Technology
Coral researchers have for the first time captured the specific behaviour of a coral as it's bleaching.
The team from QUT in Australia...
Researchers have developed models that show that increases in temperature associated with global warming will not only make inland locations more salty, but would also create drastically different pattern of pore water salinity that will have implications for animals...
Health researchers predict that the transmission of dengue could decrease in a future warmer climate, countering previous projections that climate change would cause the potentially lethal virus to spread more easily.
Hundreds of millions of people are infected with dengue...
The caldera of Mount Pinatubo on June 22, 1991. Credit: Courtesy of USGS.
Greenhouse gases are already having an accelerating effect on sea level rise, but the impact has so far been masked by the cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount...
The Eastern hoolock gibbon is an IUCN-listed endemic species threatened by the spread of tree plantations in Southeast Asia. A new study identifies hundreds more unlisted species that are also threatened.Credit: Binbin Li
As more of Southeast Asia's natural forests...
Ocean acidification, rising temperatures, eutrophication and loss of oxygen: Life in the oceans has to cope with a variety of factors. How will plants and animals react when global climate change alters their environment? Laboratory and field experiments, observations...
Early Devonian riverine landscape with plant community dominated by Drepanophycus, an early vascular plant. Credit: Zhenzhen Deng
New fossil finds from China push back the origins of deep soils by 20 million years, new research published today has uncovered.
This...
