Antarctic tourism is just one source of emissions that are speeding up regional ice melt. Credit: Matt S./Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND ...

Over the next century, the Arctic will change and look much different than it does today. Just how different is still unknown ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

An easy-to-use R package offers a more efficient way to sort through and analyze data about greenhouse gas levels collected ...

Recent radio observations reveal a new mode of initial lightning development in the form of continuous initial breakdown burst of several kilometers in length at high altitudes within thunderstorms.

Be and 26Al concentrations in river sand reveal an increase in erosion rate in the Brazilian Highlands consistent with the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, a major climatic shift that occurred about 1 ...

Microbial communities in streambed sediments are thought to play a crucial role in the removal of nutrients and pollutants, but removal is a combination of both biological and physical processes.

STEVE is a mysterious purple-white arc near the aurora, typically seen after space disturbances called substorms. A new study reveals a rare STEVE event without a substorm, prompting questions about ...

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