Researchers developed a method for creating an accurate picture of Greenland's shrinking ice cap that was used to estimate that Greenland is accountable for a half millimeter-rise [0.02 inches] in the global sea level per year. (Delft University of Technology press release)

Reconstructing the climate of the past is an important tool for scientists to better understand and predict future climate changes that are the result of the present-day global warming. (Kiel University press release)

Recent modeling results show that the depth of the water table, which results from lateral water flow at the surface and subsurface, determines the relative susceptibility of regions to changes in temperature and precipitation. (DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory press release)

Research shows that certain changes in ocean temperature and chemistry will have an unexpected side effect – sounds will travel farther underwater. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute press release)

The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to new research. (New York University press release)

Ancient lava flows are guiding a better understanding of what generates and controls the Earth's magnetic field -- and what may drive it to occasionally reverse direction. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release)

An explanation for a strange property of noctilucent clouds -- thin, wispy clouds hovering at the edge of space -- has been proposed, possibly laying to rest a decades-long mystery. (California Institute of Technology press release)

Canadian bedrock more than four billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth's early crust. (Carnegie Institution press release)

A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that air quality regulations may not effectively target a large source of fine, organic particle pollutants that contribute to hazy skies and poor air quality over the Los Angeles region. (University of Colorado at Boulder press release)

Climate has been implicated by a new study as a major driver of wildfires in the last 2,000 years, but human activities, such as land clearance and fire suppression during the industrial era have created large swings in burning, first increasing fires until the late 1800s, and then dramatically reducing burning in the 20th century. (University of Oregon press release)

Plants and soils act like sponges for atmospheric carbon dioxide, but new research finds that one abnormally warm year can suppress the amount of carbon dioxide taken up by some grassland ecosystems for up to two years. (Rice University press release)

The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since satellite record-keeping began in 1979, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center, or NSIDC. (University of Colorado at Boulder press release)

A new study shows that the dozens of much smaller outflow glaciers dotting Greenland's coast together account for three times more loss from the island's ice sheet than the amount coming from their huge relatives. (Ohio State University press release)

An analysis has been completed of the global carbon cycle and climate for a 70,000-year period in the most recent Ice Age, showing a remarkable correlation between carbon dioxide levels and surprisingly abrupt changes in climate. (Oregon State University press release)

A research team has proposed a new link to rainfall and temperature patterns in southeast Africa. (Brown University press release)

Contrary to 40 years of conventional wisdom, a new analysis suggests that old growth forests are usually "carbon sinks" – they continue to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change for centuries. (Oregon State University press release)

Whether or not particles in the atmosphere will lead to more clouds and precipitation depends on the number of particles, new research suggests. (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release)

New studies of the Southern Ocean are revealing previously unknown features of giant spinning eddies that are profoundly influencing marine life and the world's climate. (University of New South Wales press release)

Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries. (Durham University press release)

Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a study concludes that global sea rise of much more than six feet is a near physical impossibility. (University of Colorado at Boulder press release)

The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study. (Florida State University press release)

Atmospheric scientists have sorted through the pall that hangs over Mexico City to precisely identify aerosols that make up the haze and chart daily patterns of changes to the mix. (University of California - San Diego press release)

Researchers confirm that surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1,300 years. (Pennsylvania University press release)