An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean — known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle” — have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast, the Guardian can reveal. High levels of the potent greenhouse gas…
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Curiosity rover finds evidence for ancient ice-covered lake on Mars
Scientists studying data from the Curiosity rover have found evidence for an ancient ice-covered lake in Gale Crater on Mars. The findings support the theory of alternating warmer and colder climates on early Mars. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mars-curiosity-rover-ice-covered-lake-gale-crater…
The International Space Station: Keeping an eye on earth
Earth’s climate is the product of many rich and complex systems. It’s affected by water in its many forms; on land, in the air, in the oceans, and as ice. It feels influences from vegetation, from soil conditions, from the carbon cycle, from human impacts. We study and observe our planet’s ever-changing conditions in many ways, from many locations. One location…
Humans Are Disturbing Earth’s Carbon Cycle More Than the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Did
The anthropogenic climate crisis is disturbing our planet’s carbon cycle more than the dinosaur-killing asteroid did. Source: https://www.livescience.com/anthropogenic-warming-like-dinosaur-killing-asteroid.html
6 things to know about carbon dioxide
Scientists say increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere is causing global temperatures to warm – sea levels to rise – and storms, droughts, floods and fires to become more severe. Here are 6 things about CO2 you might not know. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/6-things-to-know-carbon-dioxide-co2-greenhouse-gas…