As with many natural phenomena, scientists look to past climate to understand what may lie ahead as Earth warms.
Assessing El Niño ‘Flavors’ to Unravel Past Variability, Future Impact
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UConn Researcher Aims to Uncover Plant Invasions in the Tropics
Invasive species of plants have a knack for settling in new settings and making big changes to an ecosystem, even leading to extinctions of native species.
Mount Etna Stands Above the Dust
Dust briefly clouded the skies over Sicily in early December 2022, yet the Italian island’s iconic volcano still managed to put on a show.
Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System
The researchers say that one possible explanation for this residual glow is that our inner solar system contains a tenuous sphere of dust from comets that are falling into the solar system from all directions, and that the glow is sunlight reflecting off this dust.
Genetic Barriers, a Warming Ocean, and the Uncertain Future for an Important Forage Fish
Sand lance are small schooling fish impressively rich in lipids, which makes them a fantastic and significant food source for at least 70 different species ranging from whales and sharks to seabirds, says UConn Associate Professor of Marine Sciences Hannes Baumann.
La Niña Times Three
In December 2022, Earth was in the grips of La Niña—an oceanic phenomenon characterized by the presence of cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific.
