Many ecosystems on Earth are affected by pulses of activity: temperature swings between seasons, incoming and outgoing tides, the yearly advent of rainy periods. These variations can play an important ...
Sea level rise threatens to flood thousands of industrial sites containing hazardous materials, according to a new study. Credit: Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema Research & Developments is a blog for brief ...
The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...
A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...
The federal government shut down just after midnight on 1 October. Credit: Beth Bagley/AGU Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law ...
The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...
Warm water flowing into fjords and beneath ice shelves will continue to be a prime cause of glacial melting as global temperatures rise. This melting will, in turn, contribute to sea level rise and ...
The figure depicts the hierarchy of different types of Earth System climate models. These vary in complexity (increasing from bottom to top) and in the kinds of compromises sacrificed to computation.
A recent impact in the Moon’s enormous Keeler Crater is illustrated here using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The impact hit the crater’s central peak, and debris formed enigmatic ...
Heat waves, such as the record-breaking Siberian heat wave in 2020, are having lingering impacts on Arctic ecosystems. Credit: Andrei Zverev/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 Now Kwon et al. suggest that the ...
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) serves as the Atlantic Ocean’s conveyor belt, transporting warm water north toward the Arctic Circle and returning cold, dense water back to the ...
The Loop Current flows northward into the Gulf of Mexico through the Yucatán Channel and then exits eastward through the Straits of Florida. The current can be seen in this image from May 2010, which ...
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