Tectonic mystery solved
The Earth’s surface is a collection of constantly moving tectonic plates, with new ones emerging as others are pulled down. This continuous cycle keeps our continents in motion and drives life on Earth.
GRACE water cycle study
NASA scientists have studied 17 years of gravity observations of Earth to understand how the global water cycle is changing.
Syukuro Manabe
Late in 1966, in the United States Weather Bureau computer lab, a Japanese immigrant named Syukuro Manabe would be the first to quantify the relationship between carbon dioxide and the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere.
Fiber optic seismometers
In April, Neyoarlinan, an Icelandic telecom company, extended a fibre optic line to an Icelandic volcano, providing internet access to a region lacking cell service. For the tourists, the fiber is a digital necessity. For the researchers, it enables them to take the volcanos very pulse.
Southern ocean carbon sink
The Southern Ocean is an important carbon sink, absorbing a large amount of the excess carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities, according to a new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Southern ocean speeding up
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the only ocean that circles the planet, is speeding up. Scientists are now able to tell that this is happening by taking advantage of a decades long set of observational records.