As global warming accelerates, the increasing number of supraglacial lakes and the need to accurately measure their depths have become critical for understanding ice sheet mass balance and sea-level rise. These lakes, formed ...
Environment
Feb 13, 2025
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A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. Led by Steven Cavallo, a professor in the School of Meteorology ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2025
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Climate change is making extreme weather events worse, empowering meteorological phenomena such as storms, hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts. Against this backdrop, numerical weather predictions (NWPs), which use complex ...
Environment
Jan 23, 2025
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Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and electrons that flows from the sun's outermost atmosphere (corona), traveling at speeds of 400–1,000 ...
In Europe and around the globe, melting glaciers are transforming both landscapes and national borders. In this article, Elzė Buslavičiūtė and Dr. Laurynas Jukna, researchers at the Institute of Geosciences of Vilnius ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 6, 2025
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Research by scientists at the University of Houston is changing our understanding of climate and weather on Mars and providing critical insights into Earth's atmospheric processes as well.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 19, 2024
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Interglacials are, as the name suggests, warm periods between planetary glaciations when the expanse of ice on Earth shrinks. Currently, we are in an 11,000 year-long interglacial period known as the Holocene. Prior to this, ...
The phytoplankton that populate oceans are known to play a key role in marine ecosystems and climate regulation. Like terrestrial plants, they store atmospheric CO₂, and produce half of our planet's oxygen via photosynthesis. ...
Ecology
Dec 18, 2024
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Wind tunnel experiments conducted by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF show how snow crystals change in the wind. The findings could force climate researchers to adjust their models—particularly in the ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2024
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Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse. Electrons are squeezed together ...
Astronomy
Dec 16, 2024
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