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Machine Learning-Based Ensemble Approach Quantifies the Effects of Fire-Induced Permafrost Thaw in Alaska

About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost – permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand – bound together by ice. Certain conditions, such as climate warming, have intensified tundra wildfires which have profound implications for permafrost thaw.

15 Feb 2023

New Model Estimates Shipping Emission Patterns on High Seas

Countries impose strict carbon emission regulations on shipping activities in their territorial seas or exclusive economic zones to satisfy the climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement.

14 Feb 2023

Corals Increase Heat Stress Tolerance by Shuffling Symbionts

Researchers from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science identified that certain reefs in the tropical Pacific Ocean could retain high coral cover into the second half of the current century by shuffling the symbiotic algae they host.

14 Feb 2023

Soil's Moisture Plays a Key Role in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

Soil is the Earth's second-biggest carbon storage locker after the ocean, and a research collaboration has shown that it's moisture, not temperature or mineral content, that's the key to how well the soil carbon warehouse works.

14 Feb 2023

Lowest-Ever Sea Ice Cover Recorded in the Antarctic

There is currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time in the forty years since the beginning of satellite observation: in early February 2023, only 2.20 million square kilometres of the Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice.

13 Feb 2023

Comprehensive Picture of Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed

Scientists discovered that glacier movement in Greenland is more complicated than it sounds, with deformation in warmer ice comprising small amounts of water accounting for motion earlier thought to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath.

13 Feb 2023