Clouds with a chance of warming
Researchers from Argonne's Environmental Science division participated in one of the largest collaborative atmospheric measurement campaigns in Antarctica in recent decades.
Earth Sciences news
Dec 28, 2018
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Observing clouds in four dimensions
While easily seen by people, the cotton-ball clouds (called shallow cumulus clouds) that drift overhead on partly cloudy days are hard for radars and many other instruments to observe and, therefore, hard to model and predict. ...
Climate warming experiment finds unexpected results
Tropical forests store about a third of Earth's carbon and about two-thirds of its above-ground biomass. Most climate change models predict that as the world warms, all of that biomass will decompose more quickly, which would ...
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
It's happened before, and it could happen again.
Researchers find bottom of Pacific getting colder, possibly due to Little Ice Age
A pair of researchers, one with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the other Harvard University, has found evidence of deep ocean cooling that is likely due to the Little Ice Age. In their paper published in the journal ...
Researchers suggest missing crust layer can be blamed on 'Snowball Earth'
An international team of researchers has found evidence supporting a theory that suggests a missing crust layer can be blamed on "Snowball Earth." In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...
Study shows the Sahara swung between lush and desert conditions every 20,000 years, in sync with monsoon activity
The Sahara desert is one of the harshest, most inhospitable places on the planet, covering much of North Africa in some 3.6 million square miles of rock and windswept dunes. But it wasn't always so desolate and parched. Primitive ...
Why Antarctica's sea ice cover is so low (and no, it's not just about climate change)
Sea ice cover in Antarctica shrank rapidly to a record low in late 2016 and has remained well below average. But what's behind this dramatic melting and low ice cover since?
Antarctic ice sheet could suffer a one-two climate punch
Scientists have long speculated that our planet's climate system is intimately linked to the Earth's celestial motions.
Ancient climate change triggered warming that lasted thousands of years
A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according to scientists.
