Water levels dropped nearly 1.5 meters (5 feet) total from 1996 to 2015 and the current sea level is only about 1 meter (3 feet) above the historic low level it reached in the late 1970s.Read More »
Observation of a solar eruption by multiple spacecraft triggered one of the largest collaborative efforts to trace the journey of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection to the outer reaches of the solar system.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Thirty-year-old Montreal Protocol has had a major side benefit of reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S.Read More »Climate Change
A new study finds it “extremely unlikely” that the consecutive record-breaking global temperatures in 2014, 2015, and 2016 could have occurred without human-caused climate change.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
In recent years the prevalence and length of winter warming events—winter days when temperatures peak above minus 10 degrees Celsius—have broken records.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Nearly 90 percent of respondents report hearing remarks that were racist or sexist or that disparaged someone’s femininity, masculinity, or physical or mental abilities in the last five years.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
