Researchers used paleoclimate data, modeling, and measurements of sea surface temperature to learn more about future climate. They used the Western Pacific Warm Pool, seen here in 2016, as a reference ...

Warm water flowing into fjords and beneath ice shelves will continue to be a prime cause of glacial melting as global temperatures rise. This melting will, in turn, contribute to sea level rise and ...

A crowd beats the heat with spray from a fire hydrant in Seattle. A new method for measuring urban heat exposure shows that more densely populated neighborhoods may face higher heat and longer hot ...

A recent impact in the Moon’s enormous Keeler Crater is illustrated here using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The impact hit the crater’s central peak, and debris formed enigmatic ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this image of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in 2021. New experiments might help scientists identify exotic forms of ice present in Ganymede’s interior and brought to the ...

Enterprise Rupes, a large fault that cuts across the Rembrandt Basin crater (the large crater on the right) on the surface of Mercury. This fault—and many others like it—may have resulted from the ...

An algal bloom in the Gulf of Alaska in April 2017. Credit: NASA/Goddard/NPP, CC BY 2.0 Smelting metals and burning coal vaporize small amounts of iron. Some of this iron wafts out of East Asia and ...

In high-latitude Arctic fjords, warming seas and reduced sea ice are boosting seaweed growth. This expansion of seaweed “forests” could alter the storage and cycling of carbon in coastal Arctic ...

A translation of this article was made by Wiley. 本文由Wiley提供翻译稿。 As climate change continues to drive global sea level rise, many people living in coastal areas are already seeing the effects. Coastal ...

Credit: Arizona Department of Transportation/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Wind erosion and dust may be invisible hazards, but in the United States, they have an eye-popping $154 billion annual price tag, ...

Callisto’s crater-covered surface may be hiding a liquid water ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 But evidence for Callisto’s subsurface ocean remained inconclusive, as the moon ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The poor things can’t help it, but cows are really gassy, and that’s really bad for the planet: Microbes in ...