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July Ties for Hottest Month on Record
Last month tied July 2016 as the hottest July in recorded history, according to a preliminary analysis by NASA.
And as a result, it also statistically tied with August 2016 and July 2016...
May 2017 Was 2nd Warmest May On Record, Behind Only May 2016
May 2017 was the second warmest (or hottest) May on record — in terms of global average surface temperatures. It was only a tenth of a degree behind the current record holder,...
NASA Finds New, Frightening Way Glaciers Are Melting in Greenland (PHOTO) (VIDEO)
Scientists have had their eyes on Greenland as its iconic glaciers have begun disappearing due to a warming climate. But, what they didn't expect to see was a whole new type of...
CO2 Emissions Soar as Alaska Heats Up
The Alaskan tundra is releasing an increasingly large amount of CO2 due to a warmer climate, new research shows.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that...
EPA Chief Denies CO2 as Primary Driver of Climate Change
Scott Pruitt, the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), does not think that carbon dioxide is a "primary contributor" to climate change—even though the actual science says it is.
"I...
NASA Saves Energy, Water with Modular Supercomputer
The supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, is using an innovative modular approach that is designed to get researchers the answers that they need, while reducing the high...
NASA Takes Next Step in Green Aviation X-planes Plans
Yesterday, at the 39th meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, 191 countries reached a global climate deal to reduce carbon emissions from aviation. At the same time, NASA is working to...
The World Passes 400ppm Carbon Dioxide Threshold. Permanently
We are now living in a 400ppm world with levels unlikely to drop below the symbolic milestone in our lifetimes, say scientists. Climate Central reports.
In the centuries to come, history books will...
Hidden pollution exchange between oceans and groundwater revealed
Researchers have uncovered previously hidden sources of ocean pollution along more than 20 percent of America's coastlines.
The study, published online Aug. 4 in the journal Science, offers the first-ever map of underground...
NASA Satellite Reveals How Much Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants
What connects Earth's largest, hottest desert to its largest tropical rain forest? The Sahara Desert is a near-uninterrupted brown band of sand and scrub across the northern third of Africa. The Amazon...
NASA Images Show the Amazon Could be Facing an Intense Wildfire Season this Year
Conditions created by the strong El Niño event that warmed up Pacific waters in 2015 and early 2016 altered rainfall patterns around the world. In the Amazon basin, that meant reduced rainfall...
2016 Arctic Sea Ice Wintertime Extent Hits Another Record Low
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center...
Analyses Reveal Record-shattering Global Warm Temperatures in 2015
2015 was Planet Earth's warmest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record...
Fresh Climate Data Confirms 2015 Is Unlike Any Other Year in Human History
Over the past few days, a bevy of climate data has come together to tell a familiar yet shocking story: Humans have profoundly altered the planet’s life-support system, with 2015. increasingly likely...
