To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s largest island. The most important…
Clouds are an essential part of the Earth’s climate. Clouds block the sun and shade the ground, cooling the planet’s surface and the atmosphere. They…
As a major source of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, food production has long occupied an important place in the climate-change discussion. Writing in BioScience, Alice Jones…
Wildfires and prescribed burns, which can promote soil organic matter stability, may be an important nature-based climate solution to increase long-term carbon storage. That is…
A remarkable link between the number of nearby exploding stars, called supernovae and life on Earths has been discovered. Evidence demonstrates a close connection between…
January 3 – August 15, 2012 The waters circling Antarctica absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release, serving as a strong carbon sink…
2021 may turn out to be the most critical year in our efforts to combat climate change. After four years of inaction and backpedaling by…
The 3D maps may help researchers track and predict the ocean’s response to climate change. Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in…
Launched Tuesday to the space station, the COWVR and TEMPEST two instruments could lead the way to big improvements in gathering key information for weather…
Cold era, lasting from early 15th to mid-19th centuries, triggered by unusually warm conditions. New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides a novel…
Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought. More rain than snow will fall in the Arctic and this transition will occur decades earlier than…
Longest continuously-monitored methane emissions record shows how market forces and oilfield practices can impact greenhouse gas emissions. As important as emissions of the greenhouse gas…
Extreme Heat Led to Episodic Deluges on Hothouse Earth Today, we are experiencing the dramatic impacts that even a small increase in global temperatures can…
Whether Venus, one of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, ever had oceans remains an unsolved puzzle. Although an American study hypothesized that it did,…
Why did glacial cycles intensify a million years ago? Researchers find clues on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean. Something big happened to the planet…
The urgency of Earth science and climate studies took the spotlight last Friday as Vice President Kamala Harris visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…
NASA has selected a new Earth science mission that will study the behavior of tropical storms and thunderstorms, including their impacts on weather and climate…
Statistical modeling highlights predictive importance of local climate and human activity. Researchers have uncovered new insights into the dynamics that underlie the probabilities of wildfire…
