Beneath Svalbard’s permafrost, millions of cubic meters of methane are trapped—and scientists have now learned that it can migrate beneath...
Can a volcano erupt after tens of thousands of years of dormancy? If so, how can this be explained and...
North America’s 2021 heat wave was Washington’s deadliest weather-related disaster, claiming over 100 lives in the evergreen state and many...
When it comes to greenhouse gases, methane is one the biggest contributors. Not only is it massively abundant—it’s about 25...
A new study has identified a potentially growing natural hazard in the north: frostquakes. With climate change contributing to many...
Farmers and ranchers in the Southwestern US face challenges due to human-induced atmospheric warming
The American Southwest has always been a dry place—cue romantic visions of hot, rugged, sun-bleached, seemingly infinite landscapes and star-filled...
Across the world, irrigation dominates freshwater consumption, accounting for 88% of all the freshwater consumed on a global scale. In...
A new study in Nature Climate Change takes one of the first deep dives into how climate change will affect...
The shimmering green, red and purple curtains of the northern and southern lights—the auroras—may be the best-known phenomena lighting up...
Tropical forests are clearly critical to Earth’s climate system, but understanding exactly how much carbon they absorb from the atmosphere,...
Frequent droughts—interspersed with floods—have become the new norm in eastern East Africa over the past few years, driving a massive...
In a study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) on Dec. 6, Prof. Ming Xue and his team from...
