Extreme weather events like floods, hurricanes, atmospheric rivers, heat waves, and droughts are increasingly discussed in terms of the effects of climate change. Because complex systems have complex causes, it’s Keep reading
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Shifting Sands
Qinghai Lake sits in western China, where a warmer and wetter climate has been raising the lake’s water level in recent years. These two satellite images, from 2010 and 2022, Keep reading
Melting Ice Cap
This award-winning photo by Thomas Vijayan shows waterfalls of ice melt off the Austfonna ice cap. The third-largest glacier in Europe, Austfonna is located in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. Like other Keep reading
Stirring Up Sediment
In early February, Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle passed over the Bellona Plateau in the Coral Sea, stirring up sediment from the shallow reefs there. Once the storm cleared, large swirls of Keep reading
Summer Melt
A warm summer in 2022 has resulted in record melting on Svalbard. Located halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole, more than half of Svalbard is normally covered Keep reading
Dance of the Coral Polyps
Coral reefs are made of up small organisms, called coral polyps, that live together in a colony. Individual polyps can expand, contract, and wave in the flow around them, and, Keep reading
Recycling Urban Heat
In urban areas, buildings and concrete surfaces create a heat effect that can make temperatures in the city substantially higher than in nearby rural areas. That heat isn’t just above Keep reading
Florida’s Keys
Stretching from the southern tip of Florida, a chain of low-lying islands, known as keys or cays, formed underwater during a warm interglacial period some 125,000 years ago. Originally coral Keep reading
When Reservoirs Run Dry
With the ongoing megadrought in the U.S. Southwest, more and more reservoirs are reaching historic low water levels. So it’s worth asking: what happens when a reservoir runs dry? And Keep reading
Columbia Glacier’s Retreat
In southeastern Alaska, the Columbia Glacier once stretched as far as Heather Island in Prince William Sound. After a long period of stability, the glacier began retreating in 1980 and Keep reading