The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news regarding law and policy changes that impact science and scientists today. The “Compact for Academic ...

Coral reef growth rates in the tropical western Atlantic have slowed to a fraction of what they once were, erasing coastal ...

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...

An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...

The figure depicts the hierarchy of different types of Earth System climate models. These vary in complexity (increasing from bottom to top) and in the kinds of compromises sacrificed to computation.

A schematic of the Pi Cloud Chamber. Scientists created a “cloud-in-a-box,” where warm, humid air from the heated bottom wall meets cooler, humid air from the cold top wall, generating supersaturation ...

The seatbelt sign is always on when you’re flying through a hurricane. Credit: Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Doremus, NOAA Corps Frank Marks remembers the Diet Coke can floating in front of his face as the plane ...

The crew and backup crew for the Artemis II mission to fly around the moon. From left to right: Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, CSA astronaut Jeremy ...

A translation of this article was made by Wiley. 本文由Wiley提供翻译稿。 As climate change continues to drive global sea level rise, many people living in coastal areas are already seeing the effects. Coastal ...

Credit: Arizona Department of Transportation/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Wind erosion and dust may be invisible hazards, but in the United States, they have an eye-popping $154 billion annual price tag, ...

Today we are witnessing rapid global sea level rise attributable mostly to climate change–driven melting of ice sheets and glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater. However, sea level change also ...