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Nutrients Worsen the Devastating Effects of Climate Change on Corals

A new study shows nutrients can aggravate the already negative effects of climate change on corals to trigger mass coral bleaching.

24 Aug 2020

Moorings Illuminate Cause for Arctic Ocean's Winter Ice Loss

The eastern Arctic Ocean's winter ice grew less than half as much as normal during the past decade, due to the growing influence of heat from the ocean's interior, researchers have found.

24 Aug 2020

23-Million-Year-Old Leaf Shows Link Between High Atmospheric Carbon and 'Global Greening'

Scientists studying leaves from a 23-million-year-old forest have for the first time linked high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide with increased plant growth, and the hot climate off the time.

21 Aug 2020

Sea Level Variability May Increase with Warming Climate

A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology identified a global tendency for future sea levels to become more variable as oceans warm this century due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

21 Aug 2020

Greenland Ice Sheet Records Greatest Losses in 2019

The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record loss of mass in 2019. This was the finding of a team of international researchers after evaluating data from satellite observations and modelling data.

21 Aug 2020

NASA Provides Wide-Angle Photos of Hurricane Genevieve

NASA provided a series of photos of Hurricane Genevieve as it affected Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.

21 Aug 2020

New Measurement Technology Provides Insights into Past Climate

A new measurement technology developed at the University of Bern provides unique insights into the climate of the past.

21 Aug 2020

Rising Temperatures can Cause Greater Damages to Our Economies than Expected

Rising temperatures due to our greenhouse gas emissions can cause greater damages to our economies than previous research suggested, a new study shows.

20 Aug 2020

Climate Change is the Main Culprit for Expansion of Earth's Tropics

Earth's tropics are expanding poleward and that expansion is driven by human-caused changes to the ocean, according to new research.

19 Aug 2020

Complex Climate Models Overestimate Global Warming

Research published this week in Earth System Dynamics reports that the most sensitive climate models overestimate global warming during the last 50 years.

19 Aug 2020