We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend...
Scientists are ringing alarm bells about a significant new threat to U.S. water quality: as winters warm due to climate...
Groundwaters that circulate through the subsoil as a result of melting permafrost can transport carbon dioxide and methane to Arctic...
Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as...
Some estimates of Antarctica’s total contribution to sea-level rise may be over- or underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown...
For the first time, high-energy muon particles created in the atmosphere have allowed researchers to explore the structures of storms...
Researchers studying intermediate to large earthquakes in California have discovered detectable changes in the local magnetic field that occur 2–3...
A group of researchers based at Oxford University’s Climate Processes Group has used novel methods of analyzing satellite data to...
Communities in the Great Lakes region need to start planning now for a future that may include “climate migrants” who...
Stony Brook University is leading a research project that focuses on the interplay between the evolution of the landscape, climate...
Some 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests that...
Africa has one of the world’s fastest population growth rates. Growth models project the continent’s current population of about 1.3...
