Climate change is setting the world on fire. Between 1979 and 2013, the duration of wildfire seasons increased across 25.3 percent of Earth’s vegetated surface, with net gains on every continent except Australia and Antarctica, researchers report online July 14 in Nature Communications.
Scientists think they’ve figured out why Greenland’s climate is out of sync with the rest of the Northern Hemisphere — but they had to go way back in time to find the proposed culprit.
Plate tectonics doesn’t rumple the surfaces of Earth’s supersized cousins, new research suggests.
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Scientists have spotted the mortal wound that could prompt the collapse of Antarctica’s fourth-largest ice shelf.
Climate and human consumption are parching Earth’s groundwater basins at an alarming rate, a new study finds. Of Earth’s 37 biggest groundwater basins, 21 now lose more water annually than they take in, researchers report in a paper to be published in Water Resources Research.
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Earth’s surface could hide some big blemishes. More than 90 impact craters larger than a kilometer across await discovery, researchers estimate in the Sept. 1 Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
The first up-close look at artificially triggered tremors suggests seismicity caused by human activities starts slow before shaking things up. The finding could help scientists better understand, and possibly even stem, the rising rate of earthquakes near sites where unwanted fluids, such as gunky water left over from fracking, are injected underground.
The planet quickly feels the burn from the lasting effects of fossil fuel combustion, new research shows.
One of the biggest mysteries of modern climate science may never have really existed, updated climate analyses suggest.
Includes an interactive graph I made in Tableau comparing the new and old climate data analyses.
