Βρετανοί και Αμερικανοί επιστήμονες βρήκαν, μέσω ανάλυσης σεισμικών δεδομένων, στα ανοιχτά της Δυτικής Αφρικής βάσιμες ενδείξεις για την ύπαρξη ενός πιθανού μεγάλου υποθαλάσσιου κρατήρα πρόσκρουσης…
Mια νέα αποστολή της NASA θα βοηθήσει τους επιστήμονες να κατανοήσουν καλύτερα πώς η αερομεταφερόμενη σκόνη, η οποία έχει βάρος ίσο με 10.000 αεροπλανοφόρα, επηρεάζει το κλίμα και με ποιο τρόπο, εάν…
Σε ορισμένες χώρες τις αποκαλούν «Σιμούν». Αλλού «Χαμσίν».
Στη Μέση Ανατολή με τις μεγάλες εκτάσεις ερήμου, οι αμμοθύελλες αποτελούν χαρακτηριστικό της περιοχής και αυτής της εποχής.
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The lake formed when northwest Greenland was ice-free, sometime…
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The 2020 melting season still has at least another month to gnaw away at Arctic sea ice, but it has already consumed a lot. In July, the ice cover spanning the Arctic Ocean reached a record-low…
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Another NASA climate scientist has revealed their charged politics and waded into racially charged linkages between “climate justice” and “racial justice.” and “white supremacy.” NASA’s Dr.
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For much of human history, it's been hard for scientists to learn about remote areas of the Earth that they cannot observe directly.
Jack Kaye is associate director for research in NASA's Earth…
Sea Level
LATEST MEASUREMENT:
December 2019
95 (± 4) mm
Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers and…
Greenland and coastal Louisiana may not seem to have a lot in common. An autonomous territory of Denmark, Greenland is covered in snow most of the year and is home to about 56,000 people. On the…
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat 28 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 100-year timescale. Concentrations of methane have increased by more than 150% since…