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Johns Hopkins undergrads help NASA uncover the mysteries of Venus Students are learning the ins and outs of the Venusian atmosphere and building a sensor for NASA's DAVINCI+ mission, thanks to the vi

On April 8, 2024, a remarkable natural phenomenon will captivate the world - a total solar eclipse.

Johns Hopkins experts discuss the upcoming total solar eclipse Panelists encouraged viewers to witness the rare event on April 8 firsthand if possible, and shared the science behind what makes a tota

In a first, four different technologies will monitor changes in the upper atmosphere, locally and across the continent, as the sun's radiation dips.

Arts Research Waterloo professor captures valuable experiential knowledge generated through interdisciplinary collaboration Research activity often includes social and instructional interactions, especially when researchers and students from multiple disciplines collaborate on a project.

The 24th sample taken by the six-wheeled scientist offers new clues about Jezero Crater and the lake it may have once held. Analysis by instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover indicate that the latest rock core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps as part of an ancient Martian beach.

A new method of measuring sediment thickness across Australia's interior offers a cost-effective and straightforward solution for estimating seismic hazard and resource potential while reducing carbon footprint, according to the largest study of its kind from The Australian National University (ANU).

Every year, the South Asian monsoon season brings heavy rain to over a billion people in the Indian subcontinent between June and September. The rain falls in oscillations: Some weeks see 1 to 4 inches of water, while other weeks are mostly dry. Predicting when these dry and wet periods will occur is critical for agricultural and urban planning, enabling farmers to know when to harvest crops and helping city officials prepare for flooding.

Since 2014, Curiosity has been ascending the foothills of Mount Sharp, which stands 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the floor of Gale Crater.

Global warming potential of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is more than 24,000 times that of carbon dioxide. To achieve the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change - limiting the increase in global average surface temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels - will require its 196 signatories to dramatically reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Fans at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concerts in Los Angeles made SoFi Stadium and the ground around it "ring like a bell" last August, creating measurable seismic activity during each song. So say scientists from Caltech and UCLA, who collected seismic data during one of the shows.

Rovers have roamed its alien terrain, scooping up rock samples and searching for signs of microbial life in basins once awash with water.

Over the next four years, a new joint project will investigate the links between wildfires and climate change.

2023 was a "year of opposites" for Australia's environment, but despite conditions fluctuating between wet and dry, overall conditions remain stable following a bumper year in 2022, according to the latest Australia's Environment Report , led by The Australian National University (ANU).

Giant sequoia trees are becoming a resilient part of our landscape with an estimated half a million sequoias (wild and planted) in England, writes Professor Mat Disney (UCL Geography) in The Conversation.

Imported giant sequoia trees are well adapted to the UK, growing at rates close to their native ranges and capturing large amounts of carbon during their long lives, finds a new study led by UCL researchers with colleagues at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

In 2023 Canada saw its most devastating wildfire season on record with 18.5 million hectares of forests burned, double the previous worst season in 1989, according to Natural Resources Canada.

There's enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet.

Ethnic minority claimants living in rural areas of England are more likely to face sanctions when claiming Jobseeker's Allowance compared to their White counterparts. Academics from Cardiff University used Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) data to analyse the total number of sanction and referral decisions made in each local authority (LA) for different ethnic groups over a period of seven years.

Flaws in planning, design and construction processes that ignored established best practices were the root causes of most injuries and deaths in last year's Türkiye-Syria earthquakes, according to a new report by an international team, led by UCL and the University of Cambridge.

EXPERTS ADVISORY NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory reported this week that Great Lakes ice coverage has reached a historic low.

Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz was inspired during a field trip to the Flinders Ranges to find out how volcanic activity turned our blue dot to an ice covered planet. Together with Professor Dietmar Muller and the EarthByte group, they've produced an answer. Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modelling to determine what most likely caused an extreme ice-age climate in Earth's history, more than 700 million years ago.

With dancing ribbons of light visible in the sky, a team of researchers flew on a series of scenic and sometimes stormy flights into the cold unknown, trying to learn more about why one of the most frigid places on Earth is warming at a feverish pace. The researchers-a University of Miami atmospheric scientist and her two Ph.D.

A team of researchers from Germany and Switzerland involving Empa is setting a milestone in weather and climate research: At the beginning of February, the renowned climate and weather model ICON has become available to all interested parties under an open source license. This is intended to make science and the scientific services behind it more transparent.

An international team of scientists including Elisabeth Schlosser from the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences extensively documented an exceptional warming event in Antarctica.

As part of the Ice Memory initiative, PSI researchers, with colleagues from the University of Fribourg and Ca- Foscari University of Venice as well as the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), analysed ice cores drilled in 2018 and 2020 from the Corbassière glacier at Grand Combin in the canton of Valais.

Exploring the climate crisis with Jérôme Chappellaz, environmental scientist and academic director of ALPOLE at EPFL.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Physical Review Letters on January 19, 2024. News by CNRS Physics on January 23, 2024.

Using New York as a test case, the model predicts flooding at the level experienced during Hurricane Sandy will occur roughly every 30 years by the end of this century.

Richard Taylor (UCL Geography) explains how vital it is to monitor groundwater levels and the importance of accurate groundwater level information for local communities and businesses, in The Conversation. If you stand at  practically any point on Earth , there is water moving through the ground beneath your feet.

Charles Darwin proposed that life could have emerged in a " warm little pond " with the right cocktail of chemicals and energy. A study from the University of Washington, published this month in Communications Earth & Environment, reports that a shallow "soda lake" in western Canada shows promise for matching those requirements.

British Economic and Social Research Council honours project in Brazil with participating geoinformation scientists from Heidelberg A research team including geoinformation scientists from Heidelberg

Air monitoring measurements at the University of Innsbruck's atmospheric observatory show that carbon dioxide emissions in western Austria have fallen by around 20 percent since 2018.

Long-term drought, severe storms, and rising sea levels; Without a clear policy, we will eventually find ourselves surrounded by water, without a drop to drink, explain  Maarten Kleinhans ,  Esther Stouthamer  and  Niko Wanders.

Scientists say the discovery presents a rare opportunity to study the physics that shape thousands of other planets Science + Technology Scientists say the discovery presents a rare opportunity to stu

Extreme rainfall events are becoming more extreme and periods of drought are becoming more frequent.

A team of scientists from UCL, the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are studying the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica to unravel the mysteries behind the calving processes that result in the formation of colossal icebergs.