Using echo-sounding equipment to create images and maps of areas below the ocean floor, researchers have begun to unravel a new story about the Antarctic ice sheet. (University of California, Santa Barbara press release)
The University of Arizona today announced a major new scientific initiative to tackle the grand challenges facing science and society, including global climate change, the fate of water and how energy travels through Earth's ecosystems. (University of Arizona press release)
NOAA scientists are joining a NASA-led field study this summer in Costa Rica to investigate how chemical compounds in the air are transported into the stratosphere and how that transport affects cloud formation and climate. (NOAA press release)
Engineers at MIT have devised a simple yet effective system for determining an area's landslide risk, a tool that could help planners strengthen mitigation measures in mountainous tropical regions frequently hit by typhoons. (MIT press release)
A new study indicates wind-blown dust from drought-stricken and disturbed lands in the Southwest can shorten the duration of mountain snow cover hundreds of miles away in the Colorado mountains by roughly a month. (University of Colorado, Boulder press release)
A University of Utah study shows how various regions of North America are kept afloat by heat within Earth�s rocky crust, and how much of the continent would sink beneath sea level if not for heat that makes rock buoyant. (University of Utah press release)
Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have just completed a successful test of new robotic vehicles designed for use beneath the ice of the world�s most isolated ocean. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution press release)
According to a new study in Science these floating islands of ice are having a major impact on the ecology of the ocean around them, serving as �hotspots� for ocean life. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography press release)
Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought, according to a new study. (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research press release)
Sediment cores retrieved from the Arctic�s deep-sea floor by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program�s Arctic Coring Expedition have provided long-absent data to scientists. (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program�s Arctic Coring Expedition press release)
All eyes are on where hurricanes make landfall, but the massive storms actually cause the most deaths inland, where severe flooding often surprises residents. (University of Florida press release)
In Earth�s cold and icy far north, harsh winters are giving way to spring weeks earlier than they did just a decade ago, researchers report. (EurekAlert press release)
Climate models are reliable tools that help researchers better understand the observed record of ocean warming and variability. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory press release)
A tiny single-celled organism that plays a key role in the carbon cycle of cold-water oceans may be a lot smarter than scientists had suspected. (Georgia Institute of Technology Press Release)
A new study projects a 200 percent to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the end of the 21st century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. (Purdue University press release)
Human-caused nitrogen deposition has been indirectly �fertilizing� forests, increasing their growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a new study suggests. (Oregon State University press release)
Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are putting climate models to the test. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory press release)
Two researchers say global warming has nothing to do with the decline of Kilimanjaro's ice, and using the mountain as a "poster child" for climate change is simply inaccurate. (University of Washington press release)
Scientists are using satellite imagery taken from 1976 to 2003 to study the development of industrial logging and road density in Central Africa. (Woods Hole Research Center press release)
Monitoring the saltiness of the ocean water could provide an early indicator of climate change, and the waters of the Southern Hemisphere around South Africa and New Zealand are the places to watch, say scientists. (European Science Foundation press release)
The global warming debate has focused on carbon dioxide emissions, but scientists have determined that a lesser-known mechanism -- dirty snow -- can explain one-third or more of the Arctic warming primarily attributed to greenhouse gases. (University of California-Irvine press release)
Hundreds of glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula are flowing faster, further adding to sea level rise according to new research. (British Antarctic Survey press release)
The discovery of interconnected lakes beneath kilometers of ice in Antarctica could be one of the most important scientific finds in recent years, but proper procedures need to be established before investigation begins, says a researcher. (Texas A&M University press release)
A major international experiment in Germany's Black Forest is underway to learn more about what causes rain. (Delft University of Technology press release)