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Oceans serve as the dominant feature of the Earth. They sustain life, which began in their salty waters, and influence weather and climate.   Despite the significance of Earth’s oceans, much of their history remains a mystery. Katherine Allen, and assistant professor from the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, looks […]

Yaas which crossed Odisha coast could have been more ferocious had it maintained its predicted maximum wind speed.

Image used for representational purpose only BHUBANESWAR: Cyclone Yaas, predicted to cross the north Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar islands around Wednesday noon as a very severe cyclonic storm, will be the third cyclone in the Bay of Bengal hitting the East coast in the month of May in three years. The state government has made massive preparations to ensure zero casualty amid predictions that North Odisha districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayurbhanj, Jagatsinghpur and Kend...

Methane, the main ingredient in natural gas, is a larger climate problem than the world anticipates, and cutting its emissions will be crucial to slow global warming, a new United Nations report warns. The greenhouse gas is many times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the planet, and its concentration in the atmosphere is increasing faster than at any time since record keeping began in the 1980s. Methane is much more than a climate problem, though, and this is where the report gets i...

Drew Shindell is a Professor of Climate Sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. From 1995 to 2014 he was a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. Dr. Shindell taught atmospheric chemistry at Columbia University for more than a decade. He earned his Bachelors degree at UC Berkeley and his PhD at Stony Brook University, both in Physics. His research concerns natural and human drivers of climate change, linkages between air quality ...

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Global glacier retreat has accelerated An international research team including scientists from ETH Zurich has shown that almost all the world’s glaciers are becoming thinner and losing mass’ and that these changes are picking up pace. The team’s analysis is the most comprehensive and accurate of its kind to date. Rapid glacier melt: A roaring meltwater stream connects the Morteratsch and Pers Glaciers (r.), Engadine, Switzerland. A few years ago, the glaciers were connected by ice. (Phot...

April 19, 2021 On April 7, an anonymous donor gifted the University of Maine a gift that will further the observation of gemstones in the community. Over 70 minerals and gemstones were donated to the UMaine school of earth climate and sciences. The stones came from an anonymous donor, and the gemstones will be used for purposes of teaching, research and public education. The new specimens include giant zeolite geodes from India, agate from Brazil, vanadinite from Morocco, sulfur from Italy and ...

Science Daily, Stuff, Eurasia Review, The Earth Institute, Phys.org and Futura reported that a study led by George Denton, Libra Professor in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and Aaron Putnam, assistant professor, suggests that ice age climate change may be driven by the westerly winds of the Southern Hemisphere which facilitate the release of energy from tropical ocean waters. Share this: