Ice world: Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is under assault from below and...
Ted Scambos, University of Colorado Boulder
Flying over Antarctica, it’s hard to see what all the fuss is about. Like a gigantic wedding cake, the...
Hurricane season is just around the corner
Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005,...
International Satellite to Track Impacts of Small Ocean Currents
NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating global temperatures...
Community-scale geothermal projects on the horizon
Expected Funding Opportunity Will Facilitate Community-Scale Geothermal Heating and Cooling Systems that Can Cut Emissions, Reduce Energy Burden, Boost Resilience
U.S. Department of Energy
Heating and...
Missouri city is a hot spot of toxic air pollution and...
State Launches Cancer Study After ProPublica Identifies Toxic Air Pollution Hot Spot
by Lisa Song
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The...
Plastic pollution is a global problem
here’s how to design an effective treaty to curb plastic pollution.
Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University
Plastic pollution is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the...
How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish...
How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
People fishing along the banks of the White River as it...
CDC Reports Increase in Human Rabies Cases Linked to Bats in...
Three U.S. rabies deaths in just five weeks
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC is raising awareness of the risks of rabies from bats...
Ocean heat is at record levels, with major consequences
Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland
The world witnessed record-breaking climate and weather disasters in 2021, from destructive flash floods that swept through mountain towns in...
Removing greenhouse gases from the air
These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works
Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University
Two centuries...