Climate

The vestiges of lakes long extinct dot the landscape of the American desert west. These fossilized landforms provide clues of how dynamic climate has been over the past few million years.

Part two of Jim Green and Tom Wagner’s interview about NASA’s Earth Sciences. Program.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to Tom Wagner of the Agency’s Earth Science Division.

Planetary scientists have found that a warming Earth is speeding up storms.

New findings explain synchronous deglaciation that occurred 17,700 years ago.

A field campaign on the remote Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian High Arctic, discovered an astounding number of methane seep mounds in Cretaceous age sediments.

A new NASA forecasting model is allowing researchers to make better estimates for how much ice will disappear each year through the melt seasons.

New explanation links competing theories of the origin of Antarctic glaciation and highlights complexity of climate change.

New research shows how sea ice growth in the Southern Hemisphere during certain orbital periods could control the pace of ice ages on Earth.

A new analysis of the temporary slowdown seen in Earth's global average surface temperature warming trend between 1998 and 2013 concludes Earth's ocean absorbed the extra heat.