The Arctic is a chilly place, or at least it’s supposed to be, but a recent combination of record-breaking heat and intense wildfires have turned areas of Greenland, Siberia, and Alaska into smoke-covered infernos. Scientists have been keeping a close eye on how things are developing, and as Earther reports, we’ve got some really stunning …
Every year, NASA takes a high-flying trip over the Arctic to monitor the ice and gather information on the area where people almost never tread. It’s been going on for a decade now, and most of the time the scientists make their observations with little fanfare. This year, however, the researchers snapped a photo of …
In the search for life beyond our planet, scientists have long believed that finding planets within the so-called “goldilocks” zone of their star is the key. This roughly-defined habitable zone is neither too hot nor too cold, and if life as we know it exists elsewhere in the universe, there’s a good chance we’ll find …
NASA spends a lot of its time gazing into the depths of the cosmos, but one of the great things about having high-powered cameras orbiting our planet is that you can easily observe changes to Earth as well. NASA uses that power to provide data on sea ice levels via the National Snow and Ice …
Climate change — aka, global warming, which virtually every credible scientist has agreed is mankind’s doing — is most often associated with the melting of ice near our planet’s poles. That ice melt has been speeding up in recent decades and shows no sign of slowing. When that ice melts, it causes sea levels to …
