Blue Marble – NASA
Bhutan – Courtesy of Aaron Putnam
Oregon – Courtesy of Adam Hudson
New Zealand – Courtesy of George Denton
Mongolia – Jennifer Draper/Medill
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Pacific Ocean – Medill photo
Drought, Iowa – Medill photo
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Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica - NA
Greenland icebergs - Gary Comer/Courtesy of the Comer Family Foundation
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By Chelsea Zhao, Dilpreet Raju and Ilana Wolchinsky, Dec. 21, 2022 – As the Earth warms, researchers at the Ice and Climate Exploration Research Center (PSICE) at Pennsylvania State University are interested in how we can expect glaciers, those dense bodies of ice that move under their own weight, to react to a drastically changing…… Read More
By Chelsea Zhao Crystal Rao, a geoscience graduate student at Princeton University, bases her research on the environmental changes and climate impacts on the species in clues from nitrogen isotopes in fossils. Rao uses the ratio of two common forms of nitrogen as a standard, and compares it with the nitrogen inside the tooth of…… Read More
By Brittany Edelmann and Carly Menker, Photos by Carly Menker, May 1, 2022 – Janyiah, a ninth-grade student at Gary Comer College Prep, started “falling in love with science” three years ago in the South Side school’s proactive STEM curriculum. She enjoyed the mix of her two favorite subjects: math and reading. Janyiah, in the…… Read More
By Poonam Narotam, Dec. 15, 2021 – When he’s not teaching earth science classes and analyzing data at the University of Maine, glacier whisperer Aaron Putnam is trekking into the high Himalayas or New Zealand’s Southern Alps to study where glaciers once stood. The United Nations officials behind the recent global COP26 climate conference urged…… Read More
By Christian Elliott, Dec. 9, 2021 – Even summer days are cold in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area, a meteorite-strewn expanse of glacier flanked by mountains at the eastern edge of the Antarctic ice sheet near the McMurdo Station research center. Jeff Severinghaus, a paleoclimatologist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and his colleagues…… Read More
By Christian Elliott and Brittany Edelmann, Dec. 8, 2021 – Nearly 20 years ago, then Ph.D. student Gina Moseley walked into a bar in Bristol to meet fellow members of the University of Bristol Spelæological Society caving club. An older caver talked with her over drinks about some small caves in northeastern Greenland he’d always…… Read More
By Sarah Anderson, Dec. 7, 2021 – Primed by a drought that has lasted longer than the 1930s Dust Bowl, wildfires scorched over 5 million acres of land in the western United States this year. The water level of Lake Powell is dipping dangerously low amid the severe dry spell, threatening the hydroelectric power it…… Read More
By Sarah Anderson, Nov. 16, 2021 “Tropical glacier” — the term sounds like an oxymoron and, due to climate change, it might become one. These bodies of ice nestle in the mountain ranges of tropical regions, providing a major source of freshwater and tourism revenue. But studies predict most tropical glaciers will disappear within the…… Read More
By Shivani Majmudar, Dec. 18, 2020 – COVID-19 swept the world, with little regard for anyone who stood in its path. Within weeks, the virus killed thousands, isolated people in their homes and sent economies plummeting. Not only did COVID-19 overwhelm the United States health care system during the first surge, but our political leaders…… Read More
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By Brittany Edelmann and Carly Menker, Dec. 5, 2021 – Oxford University Ph.D. student Frankie Buckingham collected the 30, 1-meter-long cylindrical tubes of soil she needed for climate research in August 2018 on a British farm in North Oxfordshire. The farm had previously cultivated oats and barley in the soil. A variety of crushed rocks…
By Liam Bohen-Meissner, Jan 28., 2021 – PODCAST Global carbon dioxide emission dropped 7 percent worldwide due to a decrease in human activity after COVID-19 brought much of the world to a standstill. Despite this, the climate impacts of COVID-19 turned out to be negligible, with 2020 tied with 2016 as the hottest year on…
By Shivani Majmudar, Dec. 18, 2020 – Amid this year’s global pandemic, the world is also fighting more frequent and severe hurricanes, larger wildfires and prolonged heat waves—indicative that climate change is real and it’s happening now. “We’re at the blinking yellow light,” said Laura Mattas, a graduate research student at the University of Maine’s…
By Grace Rodgers, Dec. 18, 2020 – In a race against climate change, Yuxin Zhou, 26, is among the next generation of climate scientists studying the Earth’s responses to rapidly rising temperatures, threatening life on the planet. As a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, studying how the Earth’s climate behaved in…
By Marisa Sloan, Dec. 18, 2020 – Despite the sci-fi name of this rare-earth element, neodymium is actually pretty common. The silvery metal is used in everything from cell phones and wind turbines to tanning booths and electric guitars. But it’s the neodymium found thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface that captured the interest…
By Grace Rodgers, Dec. 18, 2020 – Researchers have long tracked the timing and retreat patterns of the North American Laurentide ice sheet, the greatest ice sheet to exist in the Ice Age. During that time, nearly two-thirds of the rise in the global sea level was caused by the melting of the Laurentide —…
By Carlyn Kranking and Grace Rodgers, Nov. 19, 2020 – At the first 2020 Presidential debate, President Donald Trump said that Green New Deal supporters “want to take out the cows” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Not only is this claim untrue, but eliminating cows, which notoriously produce the greenhouse gas methane, isn’t necessary to…
By Elena Bruess, Oct. 16, 2019 – I ziplined recently with a scientist who told me that her work involved almost 4,000 floating robots and a massive global computer database that could help her predict the future of our world’s climate. This was during a break in the Comer Climate Conference and the woods behind…
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