An evolving set of tools helps land surface model developers optimize the realism of their parameterizations for the next generation of weather and climate models.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Workshop on Developing an Implementation Plan for a Sustained, Multidisciplinary Global Observing System of Plankton Communities; Santa Cruz, California, 25–27 June 2018Read More »Biogeosciences
Spotted seatrout, one of the most popular fish to catch on the shores of Texas, carried on their nightly baby-making ritual despite the havoc of a category 4 storm above.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
A new study in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area reveals prior estimates may significantly underrepresent methane emissions, particularly from landfills and natural gas systems.Read More »Biogeosciences
Rainfall in the driest parts of Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2017 resulted in hypersaline lagoons that killed the majority of microbes adapted to millions of years of arid conditions.Read More »Geohealth
Scientists have detected exposure to phthalates among a majority of bottlenose dolphins sampled in Sarasota Bay, Florida (2016–2017), including some with levels comparable to those observed in humans.Read More »Geohealth
Nitrogen released into the soil from thawing permafrost in the Arctic could accelerate soil carbon decomposition and alter carbon dynamics, with global implications.Read More »Biogeosciences
Ocean animals at the top of the food chain recovered first after a cataclysm at the end of the Permian period. The extinction was triggered by events resembling the changes brewing in today's oceans.Read More »Biogeosciences
As the climate warms, tropical birds living in the mountains are retreating to higher elevations to avoid the heat. What happens when they run out of mountain slope to escape to?Read More »
