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
The mechanism behind bright nights, which occur when naturally occurring airglow is amplified, has finally been uncovered.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
A new study challenges the widespread belief that environmental pollution began with the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s and 1800s.Read More »Planetary Sciences
At one point early in its history, Earth was likely a synestia, a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, a new study finds.Read More »
The first systematic evaluation of water use across the continental U.S. identifies areas that need the most help and highlights the types of action be best suited to help those areas.Read More »
