Earth Science

Credit: (Graphic courtesy of NASA/Ball Aerospace) WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers designed and built two science payloads that went up with SpaceX's Falcon 9 Heavy rocket launch on June 25. The Small…

If you guessed locations with drier atmospheres and frequent clear skies, you're rightCredit: Carlos Coimbra WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2019 -- A group of University of California, San Diego researchers set out to gain a better…

Credit: Jan Härter Understanding how the weather and climate change is one of the most important challenges in science today. A new theoretical study from associate professor, Jan Härter, at the Niels Bohr Institute, University…

Credit: Haley Nicholson Gancel A new publication in the journal Estuaries and Coasts investigates the use of a fluorescent dye to track movements of young oysters. The publication, "Field mark-recapture of calcein-stained larval…

Agency funds 5-year effort to understand the potential for life in outer solar system and establishes a new Network for Ocean WorldsCredit: NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will invest in a major new research…

Credit: Rob Spencer Thousand-year-old tropical soil unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agriculture land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new study from researchers at Florida State…

Plants adapted to Mediterranean climate may be more flexible in face of unpredictable rainsCredit: Wendy Baxter, UC Berkeley You might expect that plants hoping to thrive in California's boom-or-bust rain cycle would choose to set down…

An international group of scientists is making major advances in sustaining the world's environments, untangling the intricate ways in which people and nature depend on each other. The results are published in today's Nature…

Observational data of equatorial circulation pattern confirms that the pattern is weakening, a development with important consequences for future rainfall in the subtropicsCredit: NASA New York, NY--June 24, 2019--For decades,…

Credit: Ruidan Chen Against the background of global warming, extreme heat has occurred more frequently and caused adverse socioeconomic effects. In the midsummer of 2018, a severe extreme heat episode attacked Northeast Asia,…