Press Release 12-025The Depths of Winter: How Much Snow Is In Fact On the Ground? Will lasers and GPS technology finally enable accurate measurement of snowfall? Stellar dendrites are tree-like snow crystals that have branches upon branches.Credit a...

Press Release 12-0233-D Laser Map Shows Earthquake Zone Before and After Geologists learn how earthquakes change the landscape--down to a few inches Post-earthquake topography shows Mexico's Pescadores Fault cutting along a ridge.Credit and Larger V...

Press Release 12-019Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt In "The Great Dying" 250 million years ago, the end came slowly The geology of Griesbach Creek in the Arctic tells an ancient tale of slow extinction.Credit and Larger Version Feb...

Press Release 12-005Gulf of Mexico Topography Played Key Role in Bacterial Consumption of Deepwater Horizon Spill Scientists document how geology, biology worked together after oil disaster Vessels and platforms responding to the Deepwater Horizon s...

Millions of people in Peru's Cordillera Blanca region who depend on the water for electricity, agriculture, and drinking could soon face serious problems due to glacial shrinking. Above: Llaca glacier located in central Peru. (Credit: Edubucher / Wiki...

Press Release 11-258Scientists Assess Radioactivity in the Ocean from Japan Nuclear Power Facility New study analyzes radioactivity from facility in first months after accident A new study analyzes levels of radioactivity released to the ocean in th...

Antarctica's Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains mystery solved Public release date: 17-Nov-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Deborah [email protected] Science Foundation Multiple ancient tectonic events may have formed youthful loo...

Press Release 11-245The Weather Channel to Air "Changing Planet" Town Hall on the Future of Water Town hall to air on November 16 at 6 P.M. EST; Entire "Changing Planet" series on climate change impacts to air in November NBC News' Anne Thompson mod...

Press Release 11-243Air Pollution a Culprit in Worsening Drought and Flooding Increases in aerosols can affect cloud development A radar image of clouds; data from a decade of time played an important role in the results.Credit and Larger Version N...

November 7, 2011 Scientist monitors how ecosystem regroups after dam removal Time can take its toll on a dam. As dams age, they are more costly to repair and the risk of a catastrophic dam break increases--putting property and lives at risk. But, rem...

October 31, 2011 Researchers brave bone chilling cold to solve geologic mysteries Geologist John Goodge looks for clues about Antarctica's past in the 2 percent of the continent that is not covered in ice! The University of Minnesota-Duluth professor...

NASA continues critical survey of Antarctica's changing ice Public release date: 13-Oct-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Steve [email protected]/Goddard Space Flight Center IMAGE: NASA�s Operation IceBridge m...

Press Release 11-206Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Spill Effects on Fish Revealed Oil spill resulted in dramatic effects on fish species in Louisiana marshes Oil contamination and minnow trap in the marsh at Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.Credit an...

Press Release 11-200Scientists Probe Indian Ocean for Clues to Worldwide Weather Patterns Study how tropical weather brews in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward along the equator The S-PolKa radar on Addu Atoll in the Indian Ocean.Credit and Larger...

Press Release 11-196Deep Oceans May Mask Global Warming for Years at a Time Computer simulations of global climate lead to new conclusions New findings on a link between oceans and global climate look at ocean depths.Credit and Larger Version Septe...

Press Release 11-193Scorched Earth: The Past, Present and Future of Human Influences on Wildfires A new framework for evaluating human influences on wildfires is developed More than 30 percent of the Earth is subjected to frequent fires.Credit and L...

Press Release 11-190Something Odd Is Happening With Namibia's Weather Southwestern African country is no arid desert--this year View photo gallery on Namibia's rivers.Credit and Larger Version September 13, 2011 Something's up with the weather in N...

Press Release 11-183First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Research Flights Three-year series of scientific missions from Arctic to Antarctic produces new views of atmospheric chemistry NSF's Gulfstream V aircraft, or HIA...

Press Release 11-179Tibetan Plateau: New Cradle of the Ice Age Giants Extinct woolly rhino, three-toed horse, Tibetan bharal, chiru among recent fossil finds Artist's reconstruction of Tibetan woolly rhino that "snow swept" for vegetation.Credit and...

Press Release 11-176Testing the Water for Bioenergy Crops Water significant limiting factor in growing crops like switchgrass Midwestern United States in early autumn; a mosaic of row crops like corn and soybean.Credit and Larger Version August 29,...

Press Release 11-175Hurricane Irene: Scientists Collect Water Quality and Climate Change Data from Huge Storm Researchers pursue new information from East Coast hurricane Storms that lead to flood conditions in White Clay Creek, Pa., are a research ...

Press Release 11-168Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change Climate Picture Current called North Icelandic Jet contributes to key component of ocean circulation Northern Denmark Strait showing newly discovered deep current, in relation to kn...

Press Release 11-162Arctic Ice Melt Could Pause in Coming Decades Researchers find unexpected results in study of ice cover in the Arctic Scientists are finding some surprising results about sea ice in the Arctic.Credit and Larger Version August 11...

Chemical make-up of Gulf of Mexico plume determined Public release date: 20-Jul-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Cheryl [email protected] Science Foundation Fluid sample collected directly from broken riser at Macondo well ...

July 18, 2011 Disaster Research Center scientists study world's worst disasters in hopes of saving more lives in the future At the site of a terrorist attack, an earthquake or a tsunami, emergency responders are focused on search and rescue, and savi...

July 11, 2011 This technology allows travel through the virtual world in real time! When it comes to mapping the real world on computers, University of Southern California computer scientist Cyrus Shahabi takes his work to a whole new dimension. Upon...

Press Release 11-131Scientists Study Earthquake Triggers in Pacific Ocean Samples of rock, sediment from beneath the sea-floor help explain quakes like Japan's The scientific drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution in Puntarenas, Costa Rica.Credit and Lar...

Economic cost of weather may total $485 billion in US Public release date: 27-Jun-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Cheryl [email protected] Science Foundation Routine weather events can add up to huge annual economic impact ...

Press Release 11-122Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures Rate is greater now than at any time during past 2,100 years Rising seas lap at the house in "Nights in Rodanthe," filmed during the field work.Cred...

Press Release 11-111New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet View video Duncan Young discusses research in the Aurora Subglacial Basin.Credit and Larger Version June 2, 2011 View a video with Duncan Young, research scientist at...