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Your browser does not support the video tag. For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic’s permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth’s climate continues to warm, that carbon has begun to leach into the atmosphere, the result of microbes waking up and digesting once-frozen organic materials. A new NASA-funded study focuses on… Read more →
Your browser does not support the video tag. Scientists are closely monitoring positive signs of recovery of the Earth’s stratospheric ozone layer, which is depleted by the use of chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) for a range of industrial and commercial purposes. Even after the landmark Montreal Protocol banned these substances in the late 1980s, threats to the ozone layer persist…. Read more →
Your browser does not support the video tag. Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer. This year, Arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum March 13, 2019. It wasn’t a record low, but it continued a trend of declining sea ice maximums and minimums. Video and description courtesy of NASA
Your browser does not support the video tag. Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways. Video and description courtesy of NASA
NOAA is using some really cool tools this tornado season to look inside of Supercells, the most intense type of thunderstorm, to get a more detailed idea of what makes them work. Take a look: The supercell: The deadliest and most destructive tornadoes often come from this specific type of rotating thunderstorm. Now, scientists have embarked on a new study… Read more →
