New international research led by the University of St Andrews reveals historical high latitude volcanic eruptions caused dramatic, but short-lived...
Lightning identified as the leading cause of wildfires in boreal forests, threatening carbon storage
Lightning is the dominant cause of wildfire ignition in boreal forests—areas of global importance for carbon storage—and will increase in...
Weather extremes, such as heat waves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States...
There is no longer any question of how to prevent high-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires that have become increasingly frequent across...
The acidification of the oceans caused by human activity is already altering the production of marine plankton shells in the...
A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic...
Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a Northwestern University and University...
Scientists have calculated a way to determine the speed of past underwater landslides. To do so, researchers from The Ohio...
An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic...
As the world continues to warm, Antarctica is losing ice at an increasing pace, but the loss of sea ice...
Stratospheric clouds over the Arctic may explain the differences seen between the polar warming calculated by climate models and actual...
Mountains create their own weather or climate systems by changing airflow and precipitation patterns. Orographic, or mountain-influenced, precipitation occurs as...
