By Brenda Ekwurzel Word has it that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science program is on the chopping block with the upcoming Trump Administration. Bad decision! Alaska’s Susitna GlacierNASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science The NASA Earth Science program provides information about the Earth that plays a vital role in our scientific advancement, […]
By John Hocevar In 1992, Hurricane Andrew ripped through southeast Florida, doing more than $26 billion in damage and killing at least 65 people. At the time, I was working on a masters degree in marine biology in southeast Florida; several of my close friends lost their homes during the storm. Our marine lab was […]
By Alex Kirby In an unusually stark warning, a leading international scientific body said the Arctic climate is changing so fast that researchers are struggling to keep up. The changes happening there, it said, are affecting the weather worldwide. As ice melts, the liquid water collects in depressions on the surface and deepens them, forming […]
By Jeremy Deaton You might know the feeling—after months of encouraging news from your bathroom scale, you discover the device is broken. The outlook on your weight-loss goal is worse than you realized. Scientists just went through something similar, except instead of a scale, it was a system of satellites, and instead of your winter […]
An 80-mile long crack in the Larsen C ice shelf threatens to dislodge a chunk of ice measuring about 2,300 square miles, nearly the size of Delaware and twice the size of the massive Larsen B ice shelf collapse in 2002. As the long Southern Hemisphere polar night is ending, satellites have been able to […]
The residents of Shishmaref, Alaska voted to leave their ancestral home and relocate to safer ground as climate change-driven sea level rise threatens to engulf the coastal village. ©Gary Braasch Home to more than 600 Inupiat Inuit residents, the remote island in Alaska is experiencing rapid coastal erosion as sea levels rise and permafrost thaws. […]
By Robert McSweeney Last year saw records in the Earth’s climate system continue to tumble, says the latest State of the Climate report from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The 300-page report, released Tuesday and now in its 26th year, is an annual assessment of the world’s climate, scrutinizing the Earth’s land, […]
A unique interactive website gives you a new perspective on your time on Earth. BBC Earth’s “Your life on earth” interactive takes your birthdate, gender and height to give you a personalized look at how the Earth has changed since you were born. Factoids provided include: how many times your heart has beaten; how far […]
As coastal erosion and sea level rise eats away the Solomon Islands due to climate change, the Pacific island nations are considering the world’s first international treaty that would ban or phase out fossil fuels and set goals for renewables. PIDF Leaders declare 2017 Pacific Year for the Ocean #pidfsummit. pic.twitter.com/zF7OIiYqhm — Mark Borg (@markborgfiji) […]
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