An experiment featuring the largest flotilla of sensors ever deployed in a single area provides new insights into how marine debris, or flotsam, moves on the surface of the ocean.
The experiment conducted in the Gulf of Mexico near the...
Sea ice in the Arctic grew to its annual maximum extent last week, and joined 2015, 2016 and 2017 as the four lowest maximum extents on record, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center...
It may seem off-putting to some, but human waste is full of nutrients that can be recycled into valuable products that could promote agricultural sustainability and better economic independence for some developing countries.
Cities produce and must manage huge quantities...
Despite the growth in knowledge about the effects of a warming Arctic on its cold-adapted species, how these changes affect animal populations is poorly understood. Research efforts have been hindered by the area's remoteness and complex logistics required to...
Street map of New York City showing maximum projected future storm surge. Natural water is in dark blue, 2100 levels are in medium blue and 2300 levels are in light blue.
Credit: Catolyn Fish, Penn State Department of Geography
Rising sea...
A new study finds temperature variability will increase in some regions (shown in red) as Earth warms, even as global variability declines.
Credit: Duke University, Nature Climate Change
Many tropical or subtropical regions could see sharp increases in natural temperature variability...
Monthly global lower troposphere anomaly. December 1978 to December 2016.Credit: UAH
Globally, 2016 edged out 1998 by +0.02 C to become the warmest year in the 38-year satellite temperature record, according to Dr. John Christy, director of the Earth System...
