About 2.4 billion years ago, Earth’s atmosphere underwent what is called the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Prior to the GOE,...
A study conducted by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Vaisala Inc., published...
During COVID-19 lockdowns, the internet was flooded with images from Delhi to Los Angeles, showing mountains typically hidden behind smog...
The Triassic-Jurassic transition (~ 201 Ma) saw one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions during the Phanerozoic, namely the Central...
In the enduring dryness of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile where the average rainfall is as low as 5...
It’s been becoming more and more clear that global warming means more than just warmer temperatures. Extreme weather events are...
The evidence is overwhelming: climate change is here, and with it come catastrophes, soaring costs, migration and now, in the...
Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature...
Heat waves—like the one that blistered the Pacific Northwest last June—also occur underwater. A new study in Frontiers in Marine Science paints...
Persistently high levels of ozone pollution in Asia are costing China, Japan and South Korea an estimated $63 billion annually...
A rare volcano-triggered tsunami sparked by the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga could have been caused by shock...
The world’s first inventory of subglacial lakes has been compiled by an international team led by the University of Sheffield,...
