Global concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide are measured at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory as part of the famous “Keeling Curve” record.
Video footage from CalCOFI shows the Jan. 24, 2013 deployment of a Deep SOLO prototype.
UCSD researchers find that dust and other aerosols from one side of the world influence rainfall in another
The Greenland ice sheet did not melt as much as expected during a recent warming period but that may mean Antarctic ice sheets melted more than expected
Researchers find that heat given off by metropolitan areas is powerful enough to influence winter warming
Historical records show large variations in strength, making the contribution of human activities on current El Niños harder to assess
Scripps Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Science Veerabhadran Ramanathan and co-author Durwood Zaelke outline in today’s New York Times a short-term strategy that could slash the rate of global warming by half by midcentury.
A high-resolution computer model forecasts that climate change will cause a gradual depletion of oxygen within the iconic lake
Motorcycle fueled with marine algae is first in race’s history
Like ocean temperature, changes in last half-century only explicable in context of human-caused climate change
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