Communication: Influencing policymakers
Climate change policy needs to be based on rational thinking and scientific data. However, this can be a challenge because most policymakers are not...
Guest post: Press complaints process is ‘exercise in futility’ for scientists
This is a comment article authored by two scientists who have made complaints to regulators about coverage of climate science in the media. The...
Ocean data upgrade confirms pace of recent warming
Every day, thousands of measurements of the Earth’s temperature are taken across the world by weather stations, ships, satellites, floating buoys and weather balloons.
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Researchers, ski safety experts develop new tool that maps potential avalanches
A researcher prepares to use a laser scanning (lidar) unit to scan snow depth at the Arapahoe Ski Basin Ski area in Keystone, Colorado....
NASA/USGS satellite provides global view of the speed of ice
This image acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows a close-up of the terminus of Alaska's Hubbard Glacier on July...
NASA Sensing Our Planet 2016 features 30 researchers from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, USA,...
Boulder, Colo.—NASA’s Earth science data centers highlight the work of thirty researchers worldwide in this year’s Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features....
NASA Sensing Our Planet 2016 features 30 researchers from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, USA,...
Boulder, Colo.—NASA’s Earth science data centers highlight the work of thirty researchers worldwide in this year’s Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features....
NASA Sensing Our Planet 2016 features 30 researchers from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, USA,...
Boulder, Colo.—NASA’s Earth science data centers highlight the work of thirty researchers worldwide in this year’s Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features....
Sea ice hits record lows
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. NSIDC scientists...
Arctic summer sea ice to disappear with 2C warming, study says
A new study, published in Science, pinpoints the direct relationship between carbon emissions and the amount of Arctic sea ice melt they cause as...
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