Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researchers published new findings on the role geological rock formations offshore of Japan played in…
Just on this account, the European Space Agency has sent a satellite into space which is to perform the preparatory work for the direct detection of…
Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was once commonly used as a cleaning agent and remains an important compound in chemical industry. CCl4 is responsible for that…
“When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,” explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural…
GFZ German Research Centre begins exploratory drilling on the TU Berlin campus.
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Winston and infrared data showed that the northerly wind shear had pushed the bulk of strongest storms to the south of the…
Microplastics – small pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) wide – are an emerging environmental concern in ocean waters, where they can harm…
On Feb. 23, 2016 at 0140 UTC (Feb. 22, 2016 at 8:40 p.m. EST) the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP…
Climate change is transforming the Earth, particularly in high-latitude regions. The boreal coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere will witness an…
Global warming and the intense El Niño now underway are prolonging the longest global coral die-off on record, according to NOAA scientists monitoring and…
Together, the two studies give critical information for coastal planning. For expert assessments of future sea-level rise, the authors make the tool available…
The more clearly the dimensions of global warming become visible, the greater is the pressure to find possible ways to avoid a further increase in the…
The University of Delaware's Pamela Green is part of an international consortium of researchers from 35 laboratories that have published the genome of the…
The findings, presented this week at the annual American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences conference and recently published online in the journal Geophysical…
Extreme climate changes in the past Ice core records show that Greenland went through 25 extreme and abrupt climate changes during the last ice age some 20.000…
Approximately 790,000 years ago there were multiple cosmic impacts on earth with global consequences. Geoscientists from Heidelberg University reached this…