Analysis of several different satellite records and surface monitoring instruments indicates that the ozone layer is no longer declining, according to a new study. (University of Chicago press release)

New research suggests oyster reefs would be a cheap, convenient, and natural way to protect shorelines from erosion. (Blackwell Publishing press release)

This season's Antarctic ozone hole has swollen to an area approximately the same size as Europe and still expanding. (European Space Agency press release)

New results suggest Antarctica became the icy, barren continent that we know today when South America and Antarctica split apart very rapidly more than 30 million years ago. (British Antarctic Survey press release)

A new global study involving long-term data from satellites and ground stations indicates Earth's ozone layer, while still severely depleted following decades of thinning from industrial chemicals in the atmosphere, is no longer in decline. (University of Colorado/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration press release)

Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth's weather more than previously thought, researchers have found. (Department of Energy/Sandia National Laboratories press release)

New methods, coupling radio-delivered seasonal climate forecasts with participatory workshops for subsistence farmers, is the first to show that communication with farmers at a grassroots level helps them better understand and apply forecast information to their farming decisions. (Boston University press release)

New research supports a theory that increased atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide triggered the Permian extinction 251 million years ago. (National Center for Atmospheric Research press release)

Managers now have a new tool to assign and calculate fuel loadings and other fuel-bed characteristics anywhere in the continental United States, making the job of estimating fire hazard and fire effects faster and more accurate. (USDA Forest Service press release)

The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years, according to a new report. (University of Arizona press release)

Researchers have discovered that the smallest free-living cell known also has the smallest genome, or genetic structure, of any independent cell--and yet it dominates life in the oceans, thrives where most other cells would die, and plays a huge role in the cycling of carbon on Earth. (Oregon State University press release)

Researchers will identify and analyze a potpourri of microbes new to science that are residing in the harsh, cold climate of Colorado's high mountains. (University of Colorado-Boulder press release)

Marine environments around the world are being threatened by exotic species of the moon jellyfish being dispersed by international shipping, according to new research. (University of New South Wales press release)

Climate change could be good news for Scottish farmers, according to research finding that temperatures and increased carbon dioxide levels could mean increased crop yields and a boost to local economies. (Economic and Social Research Council press release)

The University of California-San Diego and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have conducted the first successful test of a new Ethernet optical path connecting the two institutions, to permit collaboration in real time on visualizing Earth science data objects up to 1,000 times larger than is feasible using the World Wide Web. (University of California-San Diego press release)

Contrary to popular belief, the most serious impact of global warming in the next century likely will be in the tropics, says a group of researchers. (University of Washington press release)

For the first time, new climate observations and computer models provide a consistent picture of recent warming of the tropical atmosphere. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory press release)

Coastal populations and ecosystems are more likely to bounce back from extreme coastal disasters by protecting local environments and building on local knowledge, according to a new report. (University of East Anglia press release)

Unique data from the European Space Agency's ERS-2 spacecraft reveals the interior wind fields of Typhoon Matsa. (European Space Agency press release)

Researchers say the effect of the sun's heat on weather balloons largely accounts for a data discrepancy that has long contributed to a dispute over the existence of global warming. (Yale University press release)

A new study provides the first direct evidence that atmospheric nitrogen is an important nutrient for marine life. (University of Southern California press release)

Centuries of hurricane records have been discovered in the rings of pine trees. (Geological Society of America press release)

Accurately forecasting rain will be easier thanks to new insights into clouds from a study led by the University of Leeds and University College London. (University College London press release)

As state environmental regulators prepare to implement Texas' latest plan to bring Houston into compliance with federal clean air standards, researchers are conducting the first systematic survey of ozone levels in the air above Houston using weather balloons. (Rice University press release)

The majority of Oregon is seeing a remarkable increase in sunny days, according to new research. (University of Oregon press release)

A new model offers plausible scenarios for how oxygen came to dominate Earth's atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, and why it took at least 300 million years after bacterial photosynthesis started producing oxygen in large quantities. (University of Washington press release)

An ongoing experiment shows that production responses of the grassland to changes in climate and carbon dioxide concentration are unlikely to lead to increased productivity on their own. (Public Library of Science press release)

A new study shows that human-induced global warming will accelerate the extinction of this species. (Blackwell Publishing press release)

The damage done to Spain's Guadalajara province by July's fierce forest fire has been measured from space by Envisat. (European Space Agency press release)

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory--Stennis Space Center (NRL-SSC) measured a record-size ocean wave when the eye of Hurricane Ivan passed over moorings in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004. (Naval Research Laboratory press release)

In a round table discussion at IGBP-PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting in Beijing on August 10-12, Mike Mann, Gavin Schmidt and Dmitry Sonechkin will debate the myths and realities of what we really know about temperature change during the last two millennia. (Past Global Changes IPO press release)

Based on their research into hurricane season records dating back to 1851, two LSU climatologists believe 2005 could rival some of the busiest seasons ever recorded. (Louisiana State University press release)

China's rainy season has led to serious flooding and a joint Chinese-European team is gathering Envisat radar imagery of the developing situation to give authorities a way to swiftly assess affected areas and plan their responses. (European Space Agency press release)

As this summer's European drought continues, two climate research groups have warned that it will unleash large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, giving further impetus to global warming. (New Scientist press release)

The Antarctic Peninsula is undergoing greater warming than almost anywhere on Earth and a new study suggests the spectacular collapse of Antarctica's Larson B Ice Shelf is unprecedented during the past 10,000 years. (Hamilton College press release)

If fossil fuel emissions continue to rise, the land and oceans will eventually exceed their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a new, improved computer climate model. (University of California-Berkeley press release)

How energy production and use influences climate and environment will be the focus of Penn State's newly awarded Northeastern Regional Center of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Institute for Climatic Change Research (NICCR). (Penn State University press release)

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and France used SOHO, ACE and the four Cluster spacecraft to study a huge eruption on the Sun, tracing its progress from birth to when it reached Earth. (European Space Agency press release)