By the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self-amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the…
Ponds and lakes play a significant role in the global carbon cycle, and are often net emitters of carbon gases to the atmosphere. However, the rate at which…
Over the weekend tropical cyclone Donna dropped very heavy rain over Vanuatu as it moved toward the west of the islands. Donna had intensified and had maximum…
The study of mountains in West Antarctica will help scientists improve their predictions of how the region might respond to continuing climate change. Its…
Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science have developed a new technology to measure the currents near…
A group of climate modelers led by Chunxi Zhang from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa used satellite…
The objective of the project is to understand how the services of mangrove forests for humans and the environment are related to the condition and change in…
The study found that the volcanoes formed along twin tracks due to a shift in the Pacific Plate's direction three million years ago.
Nick Dygert, a postdoctoral fellow in the Jackson School's Department of Geological Sciences, led the research which was published in May in the print edition…
“These results are important for operational weather forecasters and emergency managers,” says Nick Anderson, program director in the National Science…
An international team of researchers, led by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds, are the first to map the change in…
It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing the ground to rip open and swallow people and cars whole. The gaping earth might make…
Researchers have developed the first numerical polarimetric radar simulator to study and characterize the scattering of debris particles in tornadoes. (See…
After natural disasters, communities need fast access to damage assessment maps to aid relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts. On 28 April at the European…
Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns fluctuated during the last…
In a new set of experiments at Penn, researchers have probed the power of lightning in a less risky but much more technologically advanced fashion.
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