Improving our understanding of the relationship between changes in precipitation and flooding due to rising temperature is a new grand challenge for the scientific community, argue the authors of a recent commentary.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Using modern techniques, scientists tested an old hypothesis about carbonate mud production to shift the thinking about rocks that are used as seawater archives and a source of petroleum.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A new statistical analysis of daily, glacial runoff cycles offers a unique way of examining how Alpine glaciers have responded since the onset of rapid regional warming in the 1980s.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
New research shows unusual three-year spike in late-season surface melt due in part to bursts of warm, dry wind from Antarctic Peninsula’s mountainsRead More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Two years of mooring observations at the edge of the continental shelf show that wind stress and upwelling control the inflow of some of the warmest water observed at an ice shelf front in Antarctica.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Quantifying the impacts of dredging through satellite remote sensing could serve as a valuable resource in future geopolitical disputes over contested waters.Read More »
Ice formed in coastal nurseries along Russia’s Arctic coast is melting before it can float far offshore. Scientists are worried about what that means for wildlife.Read More »
