Antarctica Gained a Record 695 Billion Tons of Ice in Just Two Years
A rare surge in Antarctic snowfall temporarily added hundreds of billions of tons of ice to East Antarctica,…
The Ozone Hole’s Earliest Cause Wasn’t CFCs After All
When researchers first discovered the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, it was a shock to the scientific community.…
Wild New Study Claims We Can Nudge Hurricanes Away From Land
An estimated 60 million people across 24 states felt the effects of Hurricane Sandy as it moved up…
Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean
Mysteries of the Deep Something is stirring in the waters off the coast of Greenland, and it isn’t…
Hidden Solar Storms May Be Lighting Japan’s Skies With Massive Red Auroras
Low-latitude aurora observed on June 28, 2024, in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan. Credit: Tomohiro M. Nakayama Unusually tall red…
How ice forms is a mystery — now scientists are cracking the case
Beneath a suburb of Hamburg in Germany, an underground particle accelerator propels electrons at close to the speed…
It’s Alive? Surprising Discovery Changes What We Know About Fog
Fog may be far more dynamic than it appears. New research suggests that tiny droplets suspended in the…
Coal plants persist as a large barrier to the global solar energy transition
Three-step framework for PV generation and losses A three-step framework was developed to estimate facility-level PV energy generation…
Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling Fast and Scientists Finally Know Why
Earth’s surface is warming, but the upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, and scientists now understand why.…
A New Way to Fight Climate Change Emerges From Erupting Volcano
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apa submarine volcano erupted in 2022, it spewed roughly 2.9 billion tons of ash…
Atmospheric black carbon in the climate system
Szopa, S. et al. in Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis (eds V. Masson-Delmotte et al.)…
Southern Annular Mode dynamics, projections and impacts in a changing climate
Thompson, D. W. J. & Wallace, J. M. Annular modes in the extratropical circulation. Part I: month-to-month variability.…