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Climate Change

A wet climate in Minnesota led to more methane production zones in peatlands.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Wetter Climate Increases Methane Production in Peat

Elizabeth Thompson by E. Jacobsen 16 November 20162 November 2021

As northern Minnesota's climate got wetter, precipitation drove mobile forms of young carbon deeper into peatlands, doubling the size of methane-producing strata.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracing the North Atlantic's Bottom Waters

by Terri Cook 16 November 20163 June 2024

Chemicals released by two European nuclear fuel reprocessing plants, along with certain chlorofluorocarbons, are helping to constrain the speed and behavior of North Atlantic deep-ocean circulation.

Fish that suffocated from a red tide in Florida’s coastal ocean wash up onshore.
Posted inScience Updates

Coastal Observations from a New Vantage Point

by J. Salisbury, C. Davis, A. Erb, C. Hu, C. Gatebe, C. Jordan, Z. Lee, A. Mannino, C. B. Mouw, C. Schaaf, B. A. Schaeffer and M. Tzortziou 14 November 201614 February 2023

The NASA Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events satellite mission plans to keep an eye on short-term processes that affect coastal communities and ecosystems.

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Reactions to Trump Environment Plans: From Defiance to Welcome

by Randy Showstack 11 November 201621 April 2023

Some environmentalists and climate scientists took stances ranging from outrage to hope for common ground, whereas some industry groups embraced the new administration on energy and environment.  

Environmental data buoy at Granite Island Light Station, a Great Lakes Evaporation Network site on Lake Superior.
Posted inScience Updates

Predicting a Great Lake's Response to a Warm Winter

by J. D. Lenters, P. D. Blanken and B. Kerkez 11 November 201618 August 2025

The Superior Challenge Summit: Forecasting El Niño's Impact on the World's Largest Lake; Ann Arbor, Michigan, 17–19 May 2016

Calbuco volcano in Chile erupting and injecting ash and gases into the atmosphere.
Posted inScience Updates

How Did Climate and Humans Respond to Past Volcanic Eruptions?

by M. Toohey, F. Ludlow and A. N. LeGrande 10 November 201619 October 2021

First workshop of the Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society Working Group; Palisades, New York, 6–8 June 2016

Scientists trace the journey of radiocarbon through trees and soil to the atmosphere.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Isotopes Track Carbon Cycle in Northern Wisconsin Wilderness

Alexandra Branscombe by A. Branscombe 9 November 20169 February 2023

Researchers collected carbon from 3 years' worth of air samples and traced it back to its source.

The movement of the Gulf Stream has big impacts on ocean mixing and heat transport off the East Coast of the U.S.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Gulf Stream Destabilization Point Is on the Move

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 8 November 201620 July 2022

Westward migration of the wavelike Gulf Stream pattern could have big effects on ocean mixing and heat transport off the U.S. East Coast.

Crew members prepare to launch a biogeochemical profiling float in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean.
Posted inScience Updates

Bringing Biogeochemistry into the Argo Age

by K. S. Johnson and H. Claustre 8 November 201627 September 2022

Plans are underway to integrate and augment a collection of regional programs to form a global biogeochemical monitoring network.

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Former U.S. Science Academy President Ralph Cicerone Dies at 73

by Randy Showstack 7 November 2016

Cicerone was a leading authority on atmospheric chemistry and climate change and an outspoken advocate for science during a tumultuous political period.

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