Friday, May 22nd, 2015
May 22, 2015 — The Greenland ice sheet is, in places, more than three kilometres thick and a crucial feature in climate modelling. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), together with colleagues from ETH Zurich(Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), are currently conducting tests of a new radar imaging process
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
May 22, 2015 — A recent acceleration in ice loss in a previously stable region of Antarctica has been detected by ESA’s ice mission.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
April 2, 2015 — Earth’s cryosphere is particularly susceptible to climate change. Rising temperatures are certain to result in profound and widespread changes at high latitudes, where the ground remains frozen all year.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
April 2, 2015 — Seventy percent of forested lands remaining in the world are within a half mile of the forest edge, where encroaching urban, suburban or agricultural influences can cause any number of harmful effects, according to a new study involving scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
By now many of us know the important role of polar-orbiting satellites in providing advanced warning for severe weather, but how about their role during non-weather disasters? Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, when shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez grounded on Bligh Reef in
Friday, March 21st, 2014
The largest landscape restoration initiative in history gained further momentum today – the International Day of Forests – as IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and WRI (World Resources Institute) provide the world’s nations with new guidance on assessing their national restoration potential.
Friday, March 14th, 2014
The ‘SMOS Ice 2014 campaign’ focuses on verifying sea-ice forecasts and satellite-derived ice products. The campaign brings together scientists working on different types of sea-ice observations, specialists working on computer models generating ice forecasts, and engineers studying the trafficability of thin ice for ship-routing applications.
Friday, March 14th, 2014
Researchers aboard NASA’s P-3 research aircraft left the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea ice.
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Michigan, the University of Arizona, and the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) are collaborating with scientists in Brazil on a three-year research project that investigates a basic yet unanswered question in Earth-system and global carbon-cycle science: What controls the response of photosynthesis in Amazon tropical forests
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
With increasing levels of greenhouse gases causing our climate to change, it is important to understand exactly where these gases come from and how they disperse in the atmosphere. A recent field campaign has shown that a potential new satellite could provide the answers. CarbonSat is one of the two candidates for ESA’s eighth Earth
