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NASA Spots New Crack in Greenland Glacier
Is the Petermann Glacier getting ready to rupture again?
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Liberals and Conservatives Read Totally Different Books About Science
The good news: Everyone likes dinosaurs
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Proposed Test Heats Up the Debate on Solar Geoengineering
Harvard scientists are moving ahead with plans to investigate using particles to reflect some of the sun’s radiation
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This New Man-Made Sun Is 10,000 Times More Intense Than Sunlight on Earth
It’s a bright idea that just might help humans create solar fuel
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What Really Turned the Sahara Desert From a Green Oasis Into a Wasteland?
10,000 years ago, this iconic desert was unrecognizable. A new hypothesis suggests that humans may have tipped the balance
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Cloud Atlas Adds First New “Species” in Almost 70 Years
The update includes 12 new cloud-related features, including volatus clouds, contrails, and wave-like asperitas discovered by citizen scientists
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Wildfires Have Already Charred Over 2 Million Acres This Year
The fire season has gotten off to its fastest start in over a decade, with massive grass fires charring the southwest and plains states
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Repeat Bleaching Destroys Massive Swaths of the Great Barrier Reef
Rising ocean temperatures have taken a toll on the World Heritage Area
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How Climate Helped Shape Your Nose
New research shows how the width of our nasal passages is literally shaped by the air we breathe
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Doctors Warn That Climate Change Makes People Sick
Medical associations join forces to sound the alarm on climate change and human health
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Check Out the Most Detailed Tornado Simulation So Far
A supercomputer created a simulation of the F5 “El Reno” tornado which devastated part of Oklahoma in 2011
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Sending a probe to Earth’s lifeless twin could help us understand how life rises—and falls—on faraway planets
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What Killed Northern Australia’s Mangroves?
Last year’s massive die-off was the largest ever observed
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In Its Layers, This Stunning Pink Coralline Algae Holds Secrets of Climates Past
Unseen and unsung for centuries, these underwater species of coralline algae are providing scientists with an unparalleled new archive of information
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Failure at One of These 15,000 American Dams Would Be Fatal
A quiet crisis is afoot as the nation’s infrastructure ages
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Human Pollution May Be Fertilizing The Oceans. That’s Not a Good Thing
Our iron emissions from coal and steel may be fuelling ocean life, and trapping carbon in the process
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Study Shows 84% of Wildfires Caused by Humans
Over the last 21 years, debris burning, arson and campfires have combined with climate change to make the fire season much longer
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Great Barrier Reef Braces for Another Massive Bleaching Event
After the worst die-off in the reef’s history in 2016, scientists are worried that high sea temperatures will affect the area again
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The Politics of Viewing Polar Bears
Tourists flock to this coastal Alaskan town to photograph the vulnerable icons—raising hairy ethical questions
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