Camille Parmesan, Michael C. Singer and their coauthors published their commentary online this week in Nature Climate Change.”Yes, global warming is happening….
In particular, members of the British public are more prepared to take personal action and reduce their energy use when they perceive their local area has a…
NOAA's Satellite and Information Service classified Arani as a T1 on the Dvorak intensity scale which would indicate an estimated wind speed of about 29 knots…
The earthquake disaster on 11 March 2011 was an event of the century not only for Japan. With a magnitude of Mw = 8.9, it was one of the strongest earthquakes…
More than 40 years ago, pioneering tectonic geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson published a paper in the journal Nature describing how ocean basins opened and closed…
Bursts of intense global warming that have lasted tens of thousands of years have taken place more frequently throughout history than previously believe,…
Few specimens inspire greater thrills among fossil collectors than a complete trilobite. These ancient arthropods – relatives of lobsters, spiders and insects…
NASA's Aqua satellite spotted some strong convection in a recently formed low pressure area that strengthened into Sub-Tropical Storm Arani in the South…
Northern peatlands, which are a boggy mixture of dead organic material and water, cover more than four million square kilometers. The largest northern…
The researchers also determined the fate of most of those gas and oil compounds using atmospheric chemistry data collected from aircraft last June. They say…
Kevin Mulligan, director of the center, said the map was developed today following a lack of new information presented on major news outlets. The map connects…
Although the heaviest rainfall last week was in the southern United States, flooding was reported in states from Louisiana to northern New York. A rainfall…
Unusually low temperatures in the Arctic ozone layer have recently initiated massive ozone depletion. The Arctic appears to be heading for a record loss of…
Sritharan, the Wilson Engineering Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, spent more than a week in Christchurch as part of a team from…
The research team drew from scientific observations and computer climate models to evaluate the possible roles of natural and human- caused climate influences…
The Neoproterozoic era that preceded the Cambrian explosion of life was witness to a dramatic rise in oxygen levels. It has been widely assumed that the rise…