A powerful earthquake that rocked Alaska in 2002 not only triggered small earthquakes almost 2,000 miles away at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park, but also changed the timing and behavior of some of Yellowstone's geysers and hot springs, a new study says. (University of Utah press release)

New research by a professor at Imperial College in London says changes in the locations of vineyards across the UK during the last 2,000 years holds clues about our climate. (Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine press release)

Carbon dioxide and oxygen, not methane, were prevalent in the Earth's atmosphere more than 1.8 billion years ago as shown by the absence of siderite in ancient soils, according to a Penn State geochemist. (Penn State University press release)

In the beautiful and rugged mountains of southeast Alaska, glaciers grind mountains down as fast as the Earth's colliding tectonic plates shove them up. (Virginia Tech University press release)

Ohio State University engineers are rating the effectiveness of various computer models for monitoring the Great Lakes, possibly aiding studies of global climate change. (Ohio State University press release)

Envisat captures images of Typhoon Nida that brought destruction and death to the Philippines this week. (European Space Agency press release)

New research led by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University finds that a warmer world may mean a drier and dimmer world. (The Earth Institute at Columbia University press release)

Earth's climate system is more sensitive to perturbations now than it was in the distant past, according to a study published this week. (National Science Foundation press release)

Thanks to MBL Ecosystems Center, Vermont schoolteacher Amy Clapp, is leaving for Siberia on a mission to conduct important MBL climate-related research on the Lena River and to share scientific adventures with her students. (Marine Biological Laboratory press release)

A new climate model suggests that as temperatures rise with global warming, the world will be faced with a shorter supply of fresh water. (New Scientist press release)

The most northerly active volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is once again erupting, dusting the surrounding snow-white landscape with a wide expanse of dark ash that is visible from space. (European Space Agency press release)

New research shows that what was once considered a universal constant in oceanography could actually vary in the future -- depending on the ecological scenarios that affect competition for resources among microscopic marine plants, which play a role in global climate. (Georgia Tech University press release)

A wedge of earth and sky 14 feet high and 3 feet deep in Texas may help scientists better understand the ecological impact of global climate change. (Texas A&M University press release)

A Texas A&M University researcher is on a quest to learn the cause of a dead zone near the Mississippi River delta area. (Texas A&M University press release)

Plankton appear to play a major role in regulating the global climate system, according to new research. (University of California-Santa Barbara press release)

Researchers have used satellite data in a new and more accurate way to show that for more than two decades the troposphere has actually been warming faster than the Earth's surface. (University of Washington press release)