UMD-led study maps the forests of the American Midwest to monitor carbon storage over millennia. Old-growth eastern hemlock tree. CREDIT: Jody Peters When plants breathe…
This event has passed. View the seminar recording here: Dr. Ram Ramaswamy NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University Monday April 25, 2022, 2 PM ET…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2021 report predicted that global warming will cause the American Midwest to warm by 2-3°C by the mid-21st…
Two NASA Glaciologists, Kelly Brunt and Alex Gardner, recently sat down to discuss the history, challenges, and evolution of mapping the Antarctic continent and what…
This event has passed. View the seminar recording here: Prof. Yafang Cheng Head of Minerva Independent Research Group Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Guest professor…
There could be around 120 million people across the globe simultaneously exposed to severe compound droughts each year by the end of the century, according…
A new paper by the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program, an initiative supported by the ESSIC-administered Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS),…
In 1986, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), chemical compounds known to break down ozone in the atmosphere, were banned by the Montreal Protocol. This led to an immediate…
Michael Evans, UMD Department of Geology Associate Professor and ESSIC Associate Professor, is cited in a new paper Climate of the Past: Discussions titled, “Climate…
Steam rises from cooling towers at the coal-fired John E. Amos Power Plant in West Virginia on the Kanawha River as pollution from smoke stacks…