Despite advancements in clean energy, global CO2 emissions continue to rise. IIASA researchers contributed to a new international study that...
Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide is a harmful pollutant with significant impacts on air quality, climate and the biosphere. Although satellites have...
Even though climate change is bringing more frequent and severe heat waves, there is no standard, global way to measure...
Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why...
An international study led by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has used a new method to identify the...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey tracked fire activity over the past 150 years by...
The isotopic composition of carbon in iron formations from the Saglek-Hebron Complex in Nunatsiavut (northern Labrador) has been seen as...
Scientists often seek answers to humanity’s most pressing challenges in nature. When it comes to global warming, geological history offers...
When Katey Walter Anthony heard rumors of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ballooning under the lawns of fellow Fairbanks residents,...
Scientists have recovered the first long section of rocks that originated in the Earth’s mantle, the layer below the crust...
The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica live up to their name. The region is one of the driest places on...
A new study out of The University of Texas at Arlington shows that frozen land in Alaska is eroding faster...