An ancient basin hidden beneath the Greenland ice sheet, discovered by researchers at the University of Bristol, may help explain the location, size and velocity of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland's fastest flowing outlet glacier.
The research also provides an insight into...
The human-caused rise in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is being given an extra boost this year by the natural climate phenomena of El Niño, say climate scientists in a paper published in today's edition of the journal Nature...
Buildings in Kathmandu, Nepal damaged by the April 2015 Gorkha earthquake.Credit: Courtesy of Roger Bilham/CIRES
The Gorkha earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015. It's a part of the world that is prone to earthquakes, as the Indian plate makes...
If greenhouse gas emissions remain unabated. virtually every summer between 2061-2080 could be hotter than any in the historical record. Credit: © Modern Event Preparedness / Flickr
In 50 years, summers across most of the globe could regularly be hotter...
More than 167,000 hectares of coastland -- about 0.6% of the country's total area -- are projected to go underwater in the Philippines, especially in low-lying island communities, according to research by the University of the Philippines.
Low-lying countries with...
A proposed perennial plate tectonic map. Present-day plate boundaries (white lines), with hidden ancient plate boundaries that may reactivate to control plate tectonics (yellow lines). Regions where mantle lithosphere heterogeneities have been located are given by yellow crosses.
Credit: Russell...
The map above, contained in the Hsiang-Sobel paper, reflects a logarithm calculating the minimum distance an organism must travel to maintain the average temperature of its original tropical location. Credit: University of California - Berkeley
Global warming by just 2...
A new tool will enable conservation experts to monitor the impact of climate change on the fabric of historic buildings and other heritage sites for up to a century at a time.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Lincoln
A new...
Study recorded record melts in Greenland. Credit: Professor Edward Hanna of the University of Sheffield
Following record-high temperatures and melting records that affected northwest Greenland in summer 2015, a new study has provided the first evidence linking melting in Greenland...
A small stream flows through corn fields in northern Indiana. A new USGS report shows that drought periods followed by rainfall caused nitrate levels to increase to the highest ever measured in some Midwest streams during a 2013 study....
Research has found that in some cases, the type of algae control done by parrot fish and other species can pose a danger to unhealthy corals, instead of the benefit it usually offers. Credit: Photo by Cory Fuchs, courtesy...
