Although it is not yet clear how the Alaskan dust may affect the global climate system, new research from the University of Leeds and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science suggests that the effect is greater than previously believed.
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With 95% certainty, new research says vital Atlantic Ocean current will completely collapse as early as 2025.
What is El Nino and La Nina? What causes these notorious weather-impacting events and how do they differ from each other?
NASA finds June 2023 the hottest month on record.
June 2023 was the hottest June ever recorded, according to NASA’s global temperature analysis. This analysis is based on data collected from weather stations, research stations, ships, and ocean buoys. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York analyze this data to account for uncertainties and maintain consistent methods for calculating global…
The largest waterfall in the world is nearly 2 miles high and found underwater. Called the Denmark Strait Cataract, it moves so much water, it shapes global weather.
It’s not just North America that’s impacted. Smoke from Canadian wildfires has been hanging over Germany for more than a month.
New research suggests a warming climate may be causing serious vision impairment in older people.
More bad news – new model shows global warming accelerates CO2 emissions from soil microbes.
Could bamboo be the next source of renewable energy?
A Tonga volcanic plume has produced the most intense lightning storm ever recorded, with more than 40 flashes per second!
According to a recent study in the Geophysical Research Letters journal, the plume released by the 2022 eruption of the Hunga Volcano resulted in the most lightning flashes ever observed on Earth, surpassing any previously recorded storm. Sonja Behnke, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Electromagnetic Sciences and Cognitive Space Applications group, noted, “The eruption of…