By Tierney Smith The Great Barrier Reef is under siege from climate change and coal, with scientists confirming that 93 percent of the world heritage area is now suffering from severe coral bleaching. A diver checking out the bleaching at Heron Island in February 2016. This area was one of the first to bleach at […]
Driven by dwindling polar ice, climate change is actually changing the way the Earth spins, new research shows. Melting ice sheets are contributing to the change in polar motion, a term scientists use to describe the “periodic wobble and drift of the poles.” Climate change is actually changing the way the earth spins, new research […]
Calling it a potential Alaskan climate bellwether, scientists have published a new paper identifying the first new butterfly species in Alaska in 28 years. Calling it a potential Alaskan climate bellwether, scientists have published a new paper identifying the first new butterfly species in Alaska in 28 years. Photo credit: Andrew Warren / Florida Museum […]
NASA scientists fear that a growing crack in the Nansen Ice Shelf may cause it to break free from the Antarctic coast and form a massive iceberg more than twice the size of Manhattan. Nansen Ice Shelf hangs on ‘like loose tooth’; crack almost 50km @USGSLandsat https://t.co/5ge1zFPIU3 pic @NASAEarth pic.twitter.com/OBSvNNo2OM — The Antarctic Report (@AntarcticReport) March […]
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose 3.05 parts per million in 2015, the largest year-to-year increase ever recorded, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report finds. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose 3.05 parts per million in 2015, the largest year-to-year increase ever recorded, scientists at NOAA report. […]
Researchers from Utah State University found that the Beehive State’s Great Salt Lake has shrunk by 48 percent since 1847. Meanwhile, Lake Poopó, Bolivia’s second-largest lake, is died up and may be beyond recovery. NASA satellite image of Utah’s Great Salt Lake captured on Aug. 18, 2014. Utah State University scientists and state managers fear the Great Salt […]
This winter was the warmest on the record for the continental U.S., new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows, as average temperatures climbed nearly 5 F above normal. How temperatures compared to long-term averages across the contiguous U.S. during the winter of 2015-2016. Photo credit: NOAA Every state in the lower 48 […]
A once-hidden Japanese volcano has been rising up out of the Pacific ocean. Thanks to new research published last month in the journal Geology, scientists now have a better understanding of how this very young island formed. A new volcanic island was created and merged with an existing volcanic island off the coast of Japan. Photo […]
The Planetary Society’s solar sail is another step closer to spending its days in the sun. The world’s largest space-interest nonprofit has unveiled the LightSail-2, the successor to the original LightSail CubeSat (or cube satellite used for space research) that successfully deployed its solar sails in space eight months ago. The LightSail’s mylar solar sails span […]
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