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Ice sheet melt reshaping coastal Greenland

27 October 2020


The deep sea is slowly warming

13 October 2020


Fall Meeting 2020: Scientific program now online

7 October 2020


A photo of Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota taken in winter 2012. New research finds Lake Mendota and more than 100 others in the Northern Hemisphere are experiencing more ice-free years due to climate change. Credit: Sapna Sharma.

Warmer winters are keeping some lakes from freezing

6 October 2020


Anna Rood standing next to a tall, slender precariously balanced rock in Southern California. Cosmogenic surface exposure dating samples have been collected to determine its age, and a 3D model has been made to determine its probability of toppling due to earthquake ground shaking. Credit: Anna Rood & Dylan Rood, Imperial College London

Precariously balanced rocks inform earthquake risk

1 October 2020


American Expeditionary Force victims of the Spanish flu at U.S. Army Camp Hospital no. 45 in Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1918 Uncredited US Army photographer; public domain.

Unusual climate conditions influenced WWI mortality and subsequent Spanish flu pandemic

24 September 2020


Fall Meeting 2020: Press registration open

17 September 2020


WHOI scientist Anne Cohen (left) and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Nathan Mollica extract core samples from a giant Porites coral in Risong Bay, Palau. Credit: Richard Brooks, Lightning Strike Media Productions, Palau.

Ocean acidification causing coral ‘osteoporosis’ on iconic reefs

27 August 2020


New research shows Earth’s tropics are expanding poleward and that expansion is driven by human-caused changes to the ocean. Earth’s tropical regions get the most direct sunlight throughout the year and are characterized by high average temperatures and heavy rainfall. Public domain.

The tropics are expanding, and climate change is the primary culprit

18 August 2020


A new study finds if electric vehicles replaced 25 percent of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution. Credit: Michael Movchin / Felix Müller / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars, thousands of lives

17 August 2020


A commercial airplane on a runway. Credit: Image by Bilal EL-Daou from Pixabay.

Reduction in commercial flights due to COVID-19 leading to less accurate weather forecasts

16 July 2020


Notre Dame cathedral burns on 15 April 2019. Credit: GodefroyParis, Wikimedia Commons

Lead fallout from Notre Dame fire was likely overlooked

9 July 2020


JpGU-AGU Joint Virtual Meeting taking place 12-16 July

8 July 2020


A wave washing up on the Inuvialuit hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk in Canada’s Northwest Territories during an August 2019 storm. Credit: Weronika Murray.

Climate change may cause extreme waves in Arctic

7 July 2020


In recent decades, the oceans have been soaking up greater and greater amounts of carbon dioxide each year. We can’t count on that trend to continue forever, says a new study. Credit: Caleb Jones/Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/G3EMue5dLO0

Ocean uptake of CO2 could drop as we cut carbon emissions

3 June 2020

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