Climate Change
Climate change refers to long-term changes in temperatures and weather patterns. These changes may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas.
Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun’s heat and raising temperatures. Climate change puts people at risk of food and water scarcity, increased flooding, extreme heat, disease, and economic loss.
Study unveils why Southern hemisphere is stormier than the Northern
A first concrete explanation for difference, and show it is getting even stormier over time.
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia
A “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.
Today’s largest open ocean dead zone emerged 8 million years ago, study
It is critical to predicting how an ocean 'dead zone' will evolve in the future.
Scientists discovered a river longer than Thames beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice.
Insects struggle to adjust to extreme temperatures
This makes them vulnerable to climate change.
Evidence that giant meteorite impacts formed Earth’s continents
Giant impacts provide a mechanism for fracturing the crust.
New research unveils sea urchin’s secret to surviving marine heatwaves
Identifying the ability of urchins to survive extreme conditions through physiological adaptation.
Earth completed its rotation in less than 24 hours
The planet broke the record again for the shortest day.
How do penguins become oceanic birds?
More than 60 million years of evolutionary history reveal how penguins became oceanic birds.
Prevention of global warming depends on understanding the Earth’s energy imbalance
The only practical way to estimate it is through an inventory of the changes in energy.
Tonga volcano eruption was among the most powerful ever observed
The eruption triggered atmospheric gravity waves reaching the edge of space.
Study deepens mystery behind Mars’ dry climate
On Earth, many forces have combined to keep the conditions remarkably stable for millions of years. But other planets may not be so lucky....