Following an uncommonly-prolonged three-year La Niña, ocean surface temperatures have risen precipitously over the past two months, reaching record-breaking highs—and a warm El Niño period is forecast to begin sometime within the next few months. Satellite and Argo buoy data gathered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed thatread more
A new study is warning that it is now “inevitable” that the world will face nearly a foot in sea level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet alone, even if human-based carbon emissions were to halt immediately. The study authors point out that their figure is aread more
Signs of water, and signs of life– recent news from Mars is showing increased signs of both! For the former: new long-term analysis has found that water may have been present on the Martian surface for longer than originally anticipated. Additionally, the discovery of abundant carbon isotopes associated with biologicalread more
Researchers studying the lakes of liquid water that are buried under Mars’ southern polar ice caps are beginning to question whether or not these structures are indeed liquid, as the radar data would indicate, due to the lack of a heat source that would prevent the water from freezing. Butread more