Coccolithophores build armored shells out of calcium carbonate, influencing ocean chemistry in the process. Credit: Courtesy Dr. Alison Taylor; Mejia, 2011, https ...
The ground beneath our feet is exhaling. Steadily and without pause, through a process called soil respiration, plant roots and microbes release carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the atmosphere. This ...
Climate subsystems, such as summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, can undergo abrupt shifts as temperatures rise. Credit: khail Varentsov, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 They then ...
Telecom fiber repurposed as distributed acoustic sensing arrays can image near-surface structure and potentially improve seismic hazard mapping in urban areas. How much the ground moves during an ...
Dymer Creek (foreground) flows into the Chesapeake Bay near the town of White Stone, Va. The pH of coastal waterways such as the Chesapeake is influenced by both the acidification of the ocean and the ...
The activation of cloud droplets on soluble particulate matter (cloud condensation nuclei) scavenges and grows the largest particles, to create a bimodal particulate distribution. The ...
Women and gender minorities, especially in lower-income countries, generally bear a greater burden than men do with regard to the impacts of climate change. For example, women are more often ...
Mars’s Jezero crater contains channels and other water-sculpted features like deltas. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL Mars is a frigid world today, and all of ...
Update 26 January 2024: SLIM landed roughly 55 meters east of the target landing site, meeting its precision landing goal. Its power died at 2:57 a.m. JST (12:57 p.m. EST) on 20 January after taking a ...
Researchers studied the movement of dust devils on Mars to learn more about wind on the Red Planet. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO In 2020, the scientists and engineers behind NASA’s InSight ...
Researchers found the unprecedented 2023 East Asian marine heat wave increased land temperatures and humidity by up to 50%.
Despite consistently rising sea levels, most of Aldabra Atoll’s shoreline hasn’t changed since 1960. Credit: Hansueli Krapf/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 With global sea levels projected to rise 44 ...
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