The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica – about the size of Florida – has been an elephant in the room for scientists trying to make global sea level rise predictions.
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Could the Drying Up of Europe’s Great Rivers Be the New Normal?
Along the fabled Danube River, which snakes its way for 1,800 miles from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea in Romania, scores of towns — such as the small Romanian port of Zimnicea on the Bulgarian border — depend on the waterway for their livelihood.
Typhoon Hinnamnor
For most of 2022, the world’s ocean basins have been relatively quiet and free of tropical cyclones.
Spring Forward: Changing Climate’s Early Winter Wakeup Call Is a Buzz Kill for Bumblebees
uOttawa Biology study finds climate change is waking bumblebees earlier from winter hibernation, putting the species at risk with impact on human agricultural crops.
NOAA Forecasts Strong Geomagnetic Storm After Several Eruptions on the Sun
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) — a division of the National Weather Service — is monitoring the Sun and solar winds following a series of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) that began at 08:30 am EDT on August 14.
A Half-Century of Loss in Northwest Greenland
A pair of satellite images acquired almost 50 years apart reveals striking changes to the glaciers and ice caps in northwest Greenland.