New Undersea Images Challenge Ideas About the Antarctic Ice Sheet
June 28 — Using echo-sounding equipment to create images and maps of areas below the ocean floor, researchers have begun to unravel a new story about the Antarctic ice sheet. (University of California, Santa Barbara press release) More

Major New Scientific Research Initiative Launched at Biosphere 2
June 26 — The University of Arizona today announced a major new scientific initiative to tackle the grand challenges facing science and society, including global climate change, the fate of water and how energy travels through Earth's ecosystems. (University of Arizona press release) More

Scientists to Search Tropical Skies for Answers on Climate Change, Ozone Loss
June 26 — NOAA scientists are joining a NASA-led field study this summer in Costa Rica to investigate how chemical compounds in the air are transported into the stratosphere and how that transport affects cloud formation and climate. (NOAA press release) More

New Tool Determines Landslide Risk in Tropics
June 25 — Engineers at MIT have devised a simple yet effective system for determining an area's landslide risk, a tool that could help planners strengthen mitigation measures in mountainous tropical regions frequently hit by typhoons. (MIT press release) More

Desert Droughts Lead to Earlier Annual Mountain Snow Loss
June 25 — A new study indicates wind-blown dust from drought-stricken and disturbed lands in the Southwest can shorten the duration of mountain snow cover hundreds of miles away in the Colorado mountains by roughly a month. (University of Colorado, Boulder press release) More

Why a Rocky Mountain High?
June 24 — A University of Utah study shows how various regions of North America are kept afloat by heat within Earth�s rocky crust, and how much of the continent would sink beneath sea level if not for heat that makes rock buoyant. (University of Utah press release) More

New Robotic Vehicles to Explore Hydrothermal Vents on Arctic Seafloor
June 21 — Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have just completed a successful test of new robotic vehicles designed for use beneath the ice of the world�s most isolated ocean. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution press release) More

Antarctic Icebergs: Hotspots of Ocean Life
June 21 — According to a new study in Science these floating islands of ice are having a major impact on the ecology of the ocean around them, serving as �hotspots� for ocean life. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography press release) More

Scientists Close in on Missing Carbon Sink
June 21 — Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought, according to a new study. (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research press release) More

Arctic Ocean History is Deciphered by Ocean-Drilling Research Team
June 20 — Sediment cores retrieved from the Arctic�s deep-sea floor by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program�s Arctic Coring Expedition have provided long-absent data to scientists. (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program�s Arctic Coring Expedition press release) More

New Tools to Forecast Hurricane Rainfall Inland
June 19 — All eyes are on where hurricanes make landfall, but the massive storms actually cause the most deaths inland, where severe flooding often surprises residents. (University of Florida press release) More

Arctic Spring Comes Weeks Earlier Than a Decade Ago
June 18 — In Earth�s cold and icy far north, harsh winters are giving way to spring weeks earlier than they did just a decade ago, researchers report. (EurekAlert press release) More

Climate Models Consistent with Ocean Warming Observations
June 18 — Climate models are reliable tools that help researchers better understand the observed record of ocean warming and variability. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory press release) More

Marine Phytoplankton Changes Form to Protect Itself from Different Predators
June 15 — A tiny single-celled organism that plays a key role in the carbon cycle of cold-water oceans may be a lot smarter than scientists had suspected. (Georgia Institute of Technology Press Release) More

Greenhosue Gas Emissions May Fuel Future Mediterranean Heat Wave, Researchers Say
June 14 — A new study projects a 200 percent to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the end of the 21st century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. (Purdue University press release) More

Human Activities Increasing Carbon Sequestration in Forests
June 13 — Human-caused nitrogen deposition has been indirectly �fertilizing� forests, increasing their growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a new study suggests. (Oregon State University press release) More

New Theory Aims to Explain Recent Temperature, Climate Extremes
June 12 — Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are putting climate models to the test. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory press release) More

The Woes of Kilimanjaro: Don't Blame Global Warming
June 11 — Two researchers say global warming has nothing to do with the decline of Kilimanjaro's ice, and using the mountain as a "poster child" for climate change is simply inaccurate. (University of Washington press release) More

Scientists Study Impacts of Industrial Logging in Central Africa
June 8 — Scientists are using satellite imagery taken from 1976 to 2003 to study the development of industrial logging and road density in Central Africa. (Woods Hole Research Center press release) More

Salty Ocean Provide Early Warning for Climate Change
June 8 — Monitoring the saltiness of the ocean water could provide an early indicator of climate change, and the waters of the Southern Hemisphere around South Africa and New Zealand are the places to watch, say scientists. (European Science Foundation press release) More

Dirty Snow May Warm Arctic as Much as Greenhouse Gases
June 6 — The global warming debate has focused on carbon dioxide emissions, but scientists have determined that a lesser-known mechanism -- dirty snow -- can explain one-third or more of the Arctic warming primarily attributed to greenhouse gases. (University of California-Irvine press release) More

Hundreds of Antarctic Peninsula Glaciers Accelerating as Climate Warms
June 5 — Hundreds of glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula are flowing faster, further adding to sea level rise according to new research. (British Antarctic Survey press release) More

Study of Underground Lakes in Antarctica Could Be Critical
June 5 — The discovery of interconnected lakes beneath kilometers of ice in Antarctica could be one of the most important scientific finds in recent years, but proper procedures need to be established before investigation begins, says a researcher. (Texas A&M University press release) More

Understanding What Causes Rain
June 4 — A major international experiment in Germany's Black Forest is underway to learn more about what causes rain. (Delft University of Technology press release) More

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