Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

NASA Study: Expanding Tropics Shift Clouds Toward Poles

Clouds are among the most important mediators of heat reaching Earth's surface. Where clouds are absent, darker surfaces like the ocean or vegetated land…

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Detecting Underground Fungi From Space: A New Insight

Just as a person's skin indicates if s/he has a healthy diet, colored satellite images of forests in the Smithsonian's Forest Global Earth Observatory…

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Groundwater’s Role in Sea Level Rise: New Study Insights

Groundwater extraction and other land water contribute about three times less to sea level rise than previous estimates, according to a new study published in…

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Climate Exodus Looms in MENA: Rising Refugee Crisis Insights

The number of climate refugees could increase dramatically in future. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia…

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New Study Limits Evaporation Impact on Ice Sheets

Researchers found that very little of the snow and ice on the vast interior of the ice sheet is lost to the atmosphere through evaporation because of a strong…

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Ocean Oxygen Levels Plummet: Impacts By 2030s

Climate change has caused a drop in the amount of oxygen dissolved in the oceans in some parts of the world, and those effects should become evident across…

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Carbon Dioxide Fertilization: How It’s Greening Earth

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution…

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Greenland Ice Melt: Researchers Uncover Freshwater Fate

Now, a team of researchers led by faculty at the University of Georgia has discovered the fate of much of the freshwater that pours into the surrounding oceans…

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Innovative Image Analysis Measures River Surface Flow in Japan

Japan is hit by flood-related disasters almost every year – one of the most recent examples occurred in September 2015 when the Kinugawa River collapsed its…

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Gulf of Maine: Changing Water Color and Phytoplankton Growth

Dr. William “Barney” Balch's team at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been sampling the waters of the Gulf of Maine regularly over the same transect…

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New Method Enhances Early Forecasting of Indian Monsoon

“We can predict the beginning of the Indian monsoon two weeks earlier, and the end of it even six weeks earlier than before – which is quite a breakthrough,…

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Arctic Sea Ice Decline May Match 2012 Record Low

Sea ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the…

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1.5°C vs 2°C global warming: new study shows why half a degree matters

“We found significant differences for all the impacts we considered,” says the study’s lead author Carl Schleussner, a scientific advisor at Climate Analytics…

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Ocean currents push phytoplankton — and pollution — around the globe faster than thought

The billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of the world's oceans to almost any other place on the globe in…

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Microbes Use Iron Like Oxygen: Insights Into Life’s Origins

The studies can shed some light on the perennial question of how life arose, but they also have slightly more practical applications in the search for life in…

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Ice-Free Summers at the North Pole: New Discoveries Unveiled

An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have managed to open a new window…

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