CLIMATE CHANGE | NASA launches high-precision satellite to measure polar ice thickness
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, lifted off at 9:02 a.m. EDT (6:02 a.m. PDT)...
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CLIMATE CHANGE | Nitrous oxide emissions from rice farms may speed up global warming: study
WASHINGTON -- A study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that rice farming...
NATURE | Australian Antarctic Division to search for ‘million year ice core’
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA-- Australia's Antarctic program has announced that they will soon receive a new fleet of heavy tracked vehicles to...
CLIMATE CHANGE | Insect activities due to global warming cause more crop losses: study
WASHINGTON -- American researchers found that climate change was expected to accelerate rates of crop loss due to growth of...
GLOBAL WARMING | Most land-based ecosystems at high risk of major transformation due to climate change: study
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, most of the planet's land-based ecosystems, from forests and grasslands to...
CLIMATE CHANGE | Burning fossil fuels contributes most to global oxygen drop: study
LANZHOU, CHINA -- Burning fossil fuels is the largest contributor to the declining level of oxygen in the atmosphere, according...
CLIMATE CHANGE | Number of marine heatwave days roughly doubles between 1982 and 2016: study
NEW YORK -- The number of marine heatwave days has roughly doubled between 1982 and 2016 and will further increase...
CLIMATE CHANGE | Pacific Ocean ‘flushing’ may release more carbon into air: study
WASHINGTON -- Researchers from Oregon State University found that a "flushing" of the deep Pacific Ocean made more carbon dioxide...
GLOBAL WARMING | Wetter weather caused by climate change reduces forest soils’ absorption of greenhouse gases: study
WASHINGTON -- Chinese and American researchers found that increasing precipitation, a symptom of climate change, made it harder for forest...
CLIMATE | As Northern Hemisphere sizzles in scorching summer, environment experts warn of worse if global warming continues
BEIJING, CHINA -- With scorching weather broiling the Northern Hemisphere this summer and setting off forest fires in the Arctic...