An experiment to study the effects of naturally deposited iron in the Southern Ocean has supplied a key piece of the puzzle surrounding iron's role in locking atmospheric carbon dioxide in the ocean. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution press release)

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates, according to tentative figures for the year 2007 released by the World Glacier Monitoring Service. (University of Zurich press release)

Researchers have now shown that unchecked global warming would lead to a dramatic expansion of low-oxygen area zones in the global ocean by a factor of 10 or more. (University of Copenhagen press release)

New data disproves the recent theory that a large comet exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, causing a shock wave that traveled across North America triggering continent-wide wildfires. (University of Bristol press release)

New technology deployed on airplanes is helping scientists quantify landscape-scale changes occurring to tropical forests on the Island of Hawai'i from non-native plants and other environmental factors that affect carbon sequestration. (US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station press release)

Significant loss of life, destroyed property and businesses, and repairs to infrastructure could be avoided by replacing Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps with ones that contain high-accuracy and high-resolution land surface elevation data, according to a new report from the National Research Council. (National Academy of Sciences press release)

Tree death rates have more than doubled over the last few decades in old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable cause of the worrisome trend is regional warming, according to a new study. (United States Geological Survey press release)

Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes. (Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres press release)

A new study shows that the seasonal cycle has shifted, causing summer's peak temperature and winter's lowest temperature on land to arrive nearly two days earlier than was true 50 years ago. (University of California – Berkeley press release)

New research that retraced the steps of a 1965 survey on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo has revealed that, on average, species had moved uphill by about 67 meters (220 feet) over the intervening years to cope with changes in climate. (University of York press release)

Cosmic rays detected half a mile underground in a disused U.S. iron mine can be used to detect major weather events occurring 20 miles above in the Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study has revealed. (The National Centre for Atmospheric Science press release)

While the harsh winter pounding many areas of North America and Europe seemingly contradicts the fact that global warming continues unabated, a new survey finds consensus among scientists about the reality of climate change and its likely cause. (University of Illinois at Chicago press release)

A four-week expedition to explore the deep ocean south-west of Tasmania has revealed new species of animals and more evidence of impacts of increasing carbon dioxide on deep-sea corals. (CSIRO Australia press release)

An international team of researchers has created a new quantitative tool which reconstructs the sea surface temperature during the Last Glacial Maximum. (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona press release)

Temperature change in the Arctic is happening at a greater rate than other places in the Northern Hemisphere, and as a result, glacier and ice-sheet melting, sea-ice retreat, coastal erosion and sea level rise can be expected. (United States Geological Survey press release)

Slight changes in climate may trigger major abrupt ecosystem responses that are not easily reversible. (United States Geological Survey press release)

Soot from pollution causes winter snowpacks to warm, shrink and warm some more. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt streaming down mountains as much as a month early, a new study finds. (DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory press release)

New research shows that rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population facing serious food shortages. (University of Washington press release)

Storms across the UK set to increase in intensity by up to 30 percent in the next 75 years, new research shows. (Newcastle University press release)

New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level -- which is three times higher than predictions from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (University of Copenhagen press release)

Scientists have investigated the frequency of warmer than average years between 1880 and 2006 for the first time, and observed increase of warm years after 1990 is not a statistical accident. (Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres press release)

Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. (The Earth Institute at Columbia University press release)