The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice...
Accurate climate models play a critical role in climate science and policy, helping to inform policy- and decision-makers throughout the...
“Forever chemicals” are everywhere—water, soil, crops, animals, the blood of 97% of Americans—researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are...
In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according...
Perched next to a river near a glacier’s edge in Greenland, Penn biogeochemist Jon Hawkings and Jack Murphy, senior research...
About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost—permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand—bound...
Pangaea was the name Alfred Wegener gave to the supercontinent that existed on Earth 250 million years ago. Over the...
A study published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West...
Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth’s crust that might help settle a long-standing...
In a study published in Nature Geoscience, plant ecologists at the University of Bayreuth have shown how global climate change...
Fifteen million people around the world are at risk from flooding caused by glacial lakes, with just four countries accounting...
A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory is applying machine-learning algorithms to subsurface imaging that will impact a...
