World’s Longest Wave? A “Dreamland for Surfers”
March 4, 2020 The coastal and oceanic conditions off of northern Peru create a “dreamland for surfers.” The waters off...
Drenching Rains To Pose Greater Threat To Fire-Damaged Areas in Western United States
Climate change will raise risks of debris flows, flash floods. The western United States this century is facing a greatly...
Fast Yearly Retreat of Antarctica’s Sea Ice Explained by Simple Rules of Physics
A research vessel in Antarctica on June 3, 2017, the first day researchers saw the sun rise above the horizon...
Satellites and Drones Are Being Used To Study Glacial Physics and Predict Sea Level Rise
Calving front of the Upsala Glacier in Argentina. This glacier has been thinning and retreating at a rapid rate during...
NASA Makes First-of-Its-Kind Detection of Reduced Human CO2 Emissions
For the first time, researchers have spotted short-term, regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) across the globe due to...
Old Sea Ice Crumbled Away off the Coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land
February 24, 2022 March 23, 2022 In March 2022, old sea ice crumbled away as new ice formed off the...
Barranquilla – “Colombia’s Golden Gate”
Barranquilla, the capital of the Atlántico department in northwest Colombia, is featured in this image taken by the Copernicus Sentinel-2...
“Hotter-Drought Fingerprint” – Can Earth’s Forests Survive Global Warming?
Taken in 1993, this photo shows the mortality of historical forests of Atlas Cedar in Morocco. Credit: Csaba Mátyás, professor...
The Global “Plastic Flood” – Even the High North Arctic Ocean Can’t Escape Microplastic Pollution
Sampling Arctic sea ice. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / M. Tekman A new AWI-led study shows: there is now a...
Robust Increases in “Atmospheric Thirst” Across Much of U.S. During Past 40 Years
A dry Nevada landscape. New research led by DRI scientists shows that atmospheric thirst is a persistent force in pushing...
