Researchers are offering the first compelling evidence to explain regular tremors under Vancouver Island. (University of British Columbia press release)

Future increases in wind strength along the California coast may have far-reaching effects, including more intense upwelling of cold water along the coast early in the season and increased fire danger in Southern California, according to researchers. (University of California - Santa Cruz press release)

The United States could suffer the effects of abrupt climate changes within decades - sooner than some previously thought - says a new government report. (The Earth Institute at Columbia University press release)

On the ground and in the water, an international team of researchers has been collecting imaging data on the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat to understand the internal structure of the volcano and how and when it erupts. (Penn State press release)

The initial results of the first computer model that simulates the global atmosphere with a detailed representation of individual clouds have been analyzed by a team of scientists. (University of Hawaii at Manoa press release)

Satellites that were designed to measure sea level over the world's oceans can serve a valuable purpose over land, a new study has found. (Ohio State University press release)

Some researchers think global warming can be reversed with a "geoengineering" fix, but new research shows no evidence for a quick or easy technological fix. (University of California - Los Angeles press release)

Evidence suggests that human-induced climate change began not 200 years ago, but thousands of years ago with the onset of large-scale agriculture in Asia and extensive deforestation in Europe. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release)

A new analysis has found that the changes in groundwater may actually be much greater than the precipitation changes themselves. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release)

Reforestation of agricultural lands — abandoned as the population collapsed when pandemics swept the New World during European conquest and settlement — pulled so much carbon out of the atmosphere that it helped trigger a period of global cooling. (Stanford University press release)

A report provides new insights on the potential for abrupt climate change and the effects it could have on the United States, identifying key concerns that include faster-than-expected loss of sea ice, rising sea levels and a possibly permanent state of drought in the American West. (Oregon State University press release)

Three major global climate-change projections scaled down to Oregon's Rogue River Basin point to hotter, drier summers with increasing wildfire risk, reduced snowpack and rainier, stormy winters, according to a report. (University of Oregon press release)

Most atmospheric models predict that the rate of transport of air from the troposphere to the above lying stratosphere should be increasing due to climate change, but researchers have now found that this does not seem to be happening. (Goethe University Frankfurt press release)

Rocky Mountain ski areas face dramatic changes this century as the climate warms, including best-case scenarios of shortened ski seasons and higher snowlines and worst-case scenarios of bare base areas and winter rains, says a new Colorado study. (University of Colorado at Boulder press release)

As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists have discovered. (Ohio State University press release)

Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago. (Ohio State University press release)

Global warming will likely put enormous strain on California's water supply and energy systems and have a devastating impact on certain crops, and researchers predicted outcomes based on projections from two different emission scenarios. (Stanford University press release)

Scientists have discovered that the ocean's chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed. (Carnegie Institution press release)

Researchers are trying to improve weather forecasting using robotic aircraft and advanced flight plans that consider millions of variables. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release)

A team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists has found for the first time that tropical rainforests, a vital part of the Earth's ecosystem, rely on the rare trace element molybdenum to capture the nitrogen fertilizer needed to support their wildly productive growth. (Princeton University press release)

Winds in the Southern Ocean have been intensifying, but that has not done much to temper the Southern Ocean circulation and its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (CSIRO Australia press release)

By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, researchers are beginning to better understand what we're in for over the next century or two as global warming begins to crank up the heat. (Binghamton University press release)

Despite recent quakes that might have reduced stress in underwater faults, the subduction zone that produced the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, according to a group of earthquake researchers. (California Institute of Technology press release)

For over two centuries, meteorologists were puzzled by the observation that atmospheric pressure in the tropics peaks at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. nearly every day. (University of Hawaii at Manoa press release)