More than, people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island were evacuated Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami.

   The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday classified two so called forever chemicals as hazardous substances, meaning those responsible for releasing them will have to pay to clean up contamination.

   As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The...

   Researchers at Aston University have found differences between experienced Ordnance Survey OS mapmakers and novices in the way that they interpret aerial images for mapmaking, which could lead to improved training processes for new recruits. The findings are published in the Journal of Vision.

   Tectonically active mountains play an important role in the natural CO regulation of the atmosphere. Competing processes take place here: At Earth’s surface, erosion drives weathering processes that absorb or release CO , depending on the type of rock. At depth, the heating and melting of...

   Black carbon BC is the result of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, with strong light absorption. It is second only to carbon dioxide as a climate forcing factor for atmospheric warming. Deposition of BC on snow and ice surfaces reduces albedo, accelerates glacier and snow cover...

   New research finds that modern weather models can accurately predict satellite movements due to the energy emitted and reflected by the Earth. In addition to weather prediction, weather models can also help understand and predict how satellites respond to weather events, such as storms.

   The Scottish government has rescinded its target of a emissions cut to greenhouse gas emissions, relative to . The target was statutory, meaning it had been set in law in the Emissions Reduction Targets Act of .

   Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range.

   This year, organizers of Earth Day are calling for widespread climate education as a critical step in the fight against climate change.

   A remote Indonesian volcano sent a tower of ash spewing into the sky Friday, after nearly half a dozen eruptions earlier this week forced thousands to evacuate when molten rocks rained down on their villages.

   Analysis of mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation deep water limb in the North Atlantic has weakened. Two decades of continual observations provide a greater understanding of the Earth’s climate regulating system.

   Indonesian authorities were on alert Friday for more eruptions from a remote island volcano that forced thousands to evacuate this week, as nearby residents began clearing debris after molten rocks rained down on their villages.

   In California’s winter season, the state faced nine atmospheric rivers ARs that led to extreme flooding, landslides, and power outages the longest duration of continuous AR conditions in the past years. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab recently...

   The EU wants to ensure greater sustainability in agricultural trade with the Global South with the aim of minimizing the environmental and climate damaging effects of importing crops such as soya, palm oil, coffee, and cocoa. However, this aspiration is often not fulfilled in practice.

   Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface, the planetary boundary layer PBL the lowest layer of the troposphere is actually the part that most significantly influences weather near the surface. In the planetary science decadal...

   A new study from Charles Darwin University CDU , Monash University and The University of Newcastle has presented almost , estimates of groundwater recharge rates across Australia, by far the largest known database of its kind.

   Plastic is ubiquitous. It’s in the clothes we wear, wrapped around the food we eat and in the toothpaste we use. It floats in the oceans and litters the snow on Mount Everest.

   A recent study published in the PNAS shows that western Central Asia has experienced a long term drying trend over the past, years. This discovery, based on the analysis of a stalagmite from the Fergana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, adds a critical piece to the understanding of westerly influenced...

   An international team of researchers, led by Professor Jin Wu from the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong HKU , has made a promising advancement in mapping plant functional traits from space using time series satellite data. The study, published in Remote Sensing of...

   Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.

   Cancer causing flame retardants found in everyday things like plastics, furniture, fabrics and electronics can be sucked up by the skin and absorbed into the bloodstream in hours, scientists have found.

   Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to scientists from the University of East Anglia UEA and Virginia Tech. Writing in the journal Science, Prof Robert Nicholls of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research at UEA and Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech and...

   A letter from members of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty has been published in the journal Science days before the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee INC begins in Ottawa, Canada. With some discussions to focus on the mandate for and then...

   Drylands in the western United States are currently in the grips of a year megadrought, and one West Virginia University researcher is working to gain a better understanding of this extreme climate event.

   Asbestos has been found in mulch used for playgrounds, schools, parks and gardens across Sydney and Melbourne. Local communities naturally fear for the health of their loved ones. Exposure to asbestos is a serious health risk depending on its intensity, frequency and duration as it may lead to...

   The idea that earthquakes release stress by a single strong quake along a single fault plane may need to be corrected. A recent study by researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT with the participation of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and international partner...

   The deadly heat wave that hit Africa’s Sahel region in early April would not have occurred without human induced climate change, according to a study by the World Weather Attribution WWA group published Thursday.

   Dubai’s airport, one of the world’s busiest, witnessed major disruption for the third day in a row on Thursday after the heaviest rains on record drenched the desert United Arab Emirates.

   In response to the escalating fire crises in the Amazon, a timely study has revealed alarming shortcomings in the emergency fire bans implemented by the Brazilian Government. Initially seen as a promising solution in , these bans have consistently fallen short in subsequent years, revealing a...