Archives 2021

Inspiring students to pursue science, fight climate change and impact the community

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

Glacier geologists search for global climate clues to support urgent action now

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

Climate change threatens El Niño crop and rainfall boosts with severe disruptions

Columbia University Ph.D. student Celeste Pallone devotes her research time observing Eastern Equatorial Pacific dwelling planktonic foraminifera – very tiny creatures that can give huge

COLDEX: The search for Earth’s oldest ice and new climate solutions

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

Into the unknown: Exploring caves to uncover climate change clues

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

Climate change pushes precipitation — and ability to predict it — to its limits

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

Enhanced weathering: When climate research takes unexpected turns

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