Earth Sciences

Recent climate-related crises—from severe storms and flooding to extreme heat—have raised new questions about how local governments communicate the risk of these crises and what they are doing to keep their citizens safe. To better […]

A formidable new radar satellite jointly developed by the United States and India launched Wednesday, designed to track subtle changes in Earth’s land and ice surfaces and help predict both natural and human-caused hazards.This post […]

A huge flood triggered by the rapid draining of a lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet occurred with such force that it fractured the ice above and burst out across its surface.This post was originally […]

Wildfire season is no longer something that comes and goes; it’s becoming a year-round concern. In BC, wildfires can shape the entire year, and we want to know what’s coming, what’s at risk and how […]

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland and North America splitting apart 80 million years ago, according to new research led […]

QUT researchers have developed an advanced remote sensing method for accurately detecting and mapping Antarctica’s delicate moss and lichen growth, the mainstays of the continent’s fragile ecosystems. The research team also developed a way to […]

Researchers have devised a new machine learning method to improve large-scale climate model projections and demonstrated that the new tool makes the models more accurate at both the global and regional level. This advance should […]

New research from UNSW shows climate change could cause hailstorms to get worse in some of Australia’s most densely populated cities.This post was originally published on this site

A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth’s most […]

The findings are important because methane is over 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Arctic lakes are already major natural methane sources globally, but the processes that control how methane […]