AGU in the News 2021
December 2021
- Rolling Stone, ‘The fuse has been blown,’ and the doomsday glacier is coming for us all, 28 December
- BBC, Interstellar probe: A mission for the generations, 21 December
September 2021
- Gizmodo, So much ice has melted, that the Earth’s crust is shifting in weird, new ways, 27 September
- Forbes, New models show that Venus was likely habitable four billion years ago, 24 September
- The Washington Post, Every season except summer is getting shorter, a sign of trouble for people and the environment, 22 September
- Space.com, La Palma volcano spews lava hundreds of feet in the air, but don’t expect a ‘mega-tsunami,’ 21 September
- Charlotte Observer, New hurricane model will help cities better prepare, experts say. How’s it different?, 20 September
- Gizmodo, The Canary Island’s explosive volcanic eruption in 6 photos, September 20
- Smithsonian Magazine, Inside the growing movement to share science through quilting, 20 September
- Houston Chronicle, New model could help predict hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, 17 September
- The Colorado Sun, Climate change now: For many Coloradans, it’s already happening, 16 September
- CNET, NASA says ‘super eruption’ volcanoes on Mars would have blocked out the sun, 15 September
- Earth.com, Some coral communities are doing better than expected, 12 September
- Grist, The burning issue: smoke in the water, 8 September 2021
- Security Boulevard, AGU transforms its digital footprint in pursuit of building a better world for humanity, 7 September 2021
- The Sacramento Bee, What will the planet look like in 50 years? Here’s how climate scientists figure it out, 7 September 2021
- Universe Today, There are natural features on Mars that could serve as radiation shelters, 7 September 2021
- India Times, Earth’s next supercontinent will look incredible, according to scientists, 5 September
- U.S. News & World Report, Study documents dramatic loss of remaining Pyrenees Glaciers, 3 September
- The Independent, New York picks up the pieces from catastrophic flooding as Storm Ida leaves 43 dead, 3 September
- Reuters, Rocky Mountain dry: Canada’s waning water supply sows division in farm belt, 2 September
August 2021
- National Geographic, Wildfire smoke is transforming clouds, making rainfall less likely, 23 August
- CNN, A new clue emerges of what may lie beneath the Martian south pole, 20 August
- WIRED, The next big challenge for lunar astronauts? Moon dust, 19 August
- Sky and Telescope, Venus: Thin-skinned and likely to blow, 19 August
- Popular Science, Why the aftershocks from Hati’s earthquakes could be incredibly destructive, 16 August
- The Guardian, Weatherwatch: Carbon offsets easily wiped out by bad weather, 14 August
- The Seattle Times, Wildfire smoke can reduce raindrops to meaningless drizzle, study says. Here’s how, 14 August
- Associated Press, Fires charring range set up ranchers for hardship in US West, 12 August
- Scientific American, How much worse will thawing arctic permafrost make climate change, 11 August
- Wall Street Journal, Climate-change report points to rise of flash flooding, 10 August
- WIRED, Scientists could one day float an aerial robot above Venus, 7 August
- The Verge, Fires are growing worse at night, 6 August
- SPACE.com, Moon mantle the mystery may shed light on habitable planet evolution, 5 August
- Smithsonian Magazine, Subsurface ‘lakes’ on Mars may actually be frozen clay deposits, 3 August
- The Times of India, Corals under stress due to variations in oceanic acidity, 2 August
- NBC News, Earth’s energy imbalance removes almost all doubt from human-made climate change, 1 August
July 2021
- Gizmodo, Underground ‘lakes’ on Mars may just be big globs of clay, 30 July
- The Washington Post, Australian fires had a bigger impact on climate than COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, 27 July
- Science, U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming, 27 July
- SPACE.com, Earth’s cryosphere loses enough ice to cover Lake Superior every year, 5 July
- BBC News, What is a geyser? And how could climate change affect them in the US?, 4 July
- Smithsonian, Massive Antarctic lake vanishes in just three days, 2 July
June 2021
- CNN, The Northwest heat wave is ‘unprecedented.’ Here’s what’s pushing it into uncharted territory, 29 June
- The Hill, EPA underestimated methane emissions from oil and gas development, 29 June
- Ars Technica, Metals from space descend on Boulder, Colorado, at dusk and dawn, 14 June
- Forbes, Study uses seismic network to monitor 1,000 rocket launches, 10 June
- KPBS, Study: Air pollution reduction could help reduce global warming, 8 June
- Nature World News, World’s oldest water found in an ancient pool below Canada, 7 June
- Futurity, Tropics will see more record-breaking temperatures, 4 June
- National Geographic, Where are the U.S.’s natural gas pipelines? Often in vulnerable communities, 4 June
- CNN, Organic salts could be on Mars. Here’s what that means, 2 June
- EarthSky, Active seafloor volcanoes on Jupiter’s Moon Europa, 2 June
- Fortune, We’re eating more meat than ever, and it’s a big problem for climate change, 2 June
- ABC Baltimore, Trends suggest extreme weather seasons are becoming longer, 1 June
May 2021
- The Weather Network, Yellowstone National Park is hotter than ever, scientists say, 28 May
- Bloomberg, What climate science loses without enough black researchers, 27 May
- Futurism, Why NASA scientists are so excited by new hints of organic compounds on Mars, 26 May
- Science, Air pollution helps wildfires create their own lightning, 25 May
- Forbes, New study pinpoints the source of largest recorded Mediterranean earthquakes, Forbes, 17 May
- WIRED, Mexico city could sink up to 65 feet, WIRED, 17 May
- SPACE.com, Space launch traffic may influence mysterious night-shining clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, 14 May
- Ars Technica, Analysis confirms hypothesis for source of mysterious auroral ‘dunes’, 13 May
- Science Magazine, Hybrid scientific conferences aim to offer best of in-person and virtual meetings, 12 May
- SPACE, Mystery of strange new ‘dune’ auroras solved, scientists say, 7 May
- Astronomy Now, Helium ‘rain’ in Saturn’s interior may influence the magnetic field, 7 May
- Journal: Recipe for a Saturn‐Like Dynamo
- WIRED, How weird, bouncy cell signals can help track wildfire smoke, 5 May
- Reuters, Melting Antarctic could push seas to ‘catastrophic’ levels at 3C warming, 5 May
- Gizmodo, Natural radio signals detected in Venus’s atmosphere, 4 May
- Washington Post, California’s wildfire season is expanding as the wet season becomes compressed, 2 May
- Scientific American, Saturn probe data reveal an impressive depth of titan’s largest sea, 1 May
April 2021
- Smithsonian Magazine, How extreme temperature swings in deserts stir sand and dust, 29 April
- Reuters, Migration to flee rising seas could affect 1.3 million Bangladeshis by 2050, 28 April
- Astronomy, Are exoplanets with oxygen atmospheres overrated?, 27 April
- New York Post, Earth knocked off its axis by glacial melting due to climate change, 26 April
- Inside Higher Ed, Making geology accessible for blind students, 22 April
- The Denver Channel, Mass bird deaths in Colorado due to toxic gasses from wildfires, 22 April
- Smithsonian, Raindrops are surprisingly similar on other planets, 21 April
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, River color seen by satellite is helping to reveal the condition of water, 19 April
- Journal: The Color of Rivers
- USA Today, Innermost: Earth has another layer in its core, scientists discover, 14 April
- Bloomberg, Melting ice shelves show razor-thin risk margins on warmer Earth, 13 April
- BGR, Study warns that we might mess up when searching for life in space, 13 April
- Environmental Health News, Op-ed: Flood survivors find common ground in a divided nation, 12 April
- San Francisco Chronicle, California braces for extreme 2021 wildfire season, 12 April
- SPACE.com, Over a third of Antarctic ice shelf could collapse as climate change warms the Earth, 11 April
- Inside Climate Change, In the west, signs in the snow warn that a 20-year drought will persist and intensify, 9 April
- The New York Times, Are you confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists, 9 April
- Scientific American, Data sow shifting colors of U.S. rivers, 8 April
- Journal: The Color of Rivers
- Washington Post, Weather satellite detects record-cold cloud temperature of minus-168 degrees, 6 April
- New York Post, NASA researchers discover first X-rays from Uranus, 5 April
- Business Insider, Earth contains buried chunks of an alien world that are ‘millions of times larger than Mount Everest’, 1 April
March 2021
- WIRED, How cargo ships could help detect tsunamis, 31 March
- Space.com, Mars’ dark streaks are probably caused by dry landslides, 30 March
- CNN, As the Arctic warms, lightning strikes are more frequent — even near the North Pole, 28 March
- Journal: Lightning in the Arctic
- BBC, Super-cold thunderstorm sets temperature record, 27 March
- The New York Times, A Biden administration strategy: Send in the scientists, 26 March
- Quartz, A NASA study says it’s the first to directly measure humans’ role in climate change, 26 March
- Reuters, Climate change set to drive more deadly heat in South Asia, 25 March
- SPACE, Glowing ‘dawn storm’ auroras that blaze in Jupiter’s morning skies are born in darkness, March 21
- Men’s Health, Why One Side of Earth is Rapidly Getting Colder Than the Other, 17 March
- Reuters, Mauritian climate activist holds underwater protest to protect seagrass, 17 March
- Associated Press, No cigar: Interstellar object is cookie-shaped planet shard, 17 March
- The Washington Post, Without changes to mitigate global warming, summer could last nearly six months, study finds, 13 March
- Forbes, Martian’ Light: How A NASA Spacecraft Solved The Mystery Of Cosmic Dust And How To See It With Your Naked Eyes, 12 March
- Smithsonian, To Study Night-Shining Clouds, NASA Used Its ‘Super Soaker’ Rocket to Make a Fake One, 10 March
- Reuters, Rising magma and empty coffers raise alarm for Congo’s volcano-watchers, 10 March
- Popular Mechanics, Surprise! Earth Has a Secret Hidden Layer, 10 March
- CNET, Scientists uncover secrets of mysterious Mars cloud, 10 March
- Live Science, Earth has a hidden layer, and no one knows exactly what it is, 8 March
- Science News, To understand how ‘night-shining’ clouds form, scientists made one themselves, 5 March
- The Hill, Surprising report finds US can reach net-zero emissions by 2050 for just $1 per person per day, 4 March
- The New York Times, The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth, 4 March
- Scientific American, Huge Atmospheric Rivers Could Quicken Antarctic Ice Melt, 4 March
February 2021
- Times of San Diego, Study: As Wildfires Increase, Southern California Could Face Landslides Almost Every Year, 28 February
- Journal: Earth’s Future
- Science, Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before, 25 February
- Federal Times, The battle for the future of the federal workforce, 24 February
- CNET, Scientists stumble on a meteor smashing into Jupiter, 23 February
- Bloomberg CityLab, Cities Are Sinking Under the Weight of Urban Development, 23 February
- National Geographic, Same force behind Texas deep freeze could drive prolonged heat waves, 21 February
- The New York Times, Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titan’s Methane Seas, 21 February
- Science Alert, Variations in Sunlight Have More to Do With Pollution Than Clouds, Says Study, 21 February
- Times of India, Indian monsoon system 27 million years old: Study, 20 February
- Space News, The multi-decade challenge of Mars Sample Return, 18 February
- Toronto Star, Watch: A Toronto teenager unravels the connection between seismic waves and COVID-19, 12 February
- Politico, Biden, China dance around fossil fuel funding, 12 February
- Discover, Jezero Crater: A Closer Look at the Perseverance Rover’s Landing Site, 10 February
- The Washington Post, California’s rainy season now starts nearly a month later, increasing wildfire risks, 9 February
- Smithsonian, Super High-Speed Footage Captures the Moment a Lightning Bolt Forms, 9 February
- The Atlantic, Mars Doesn’t Look So Dead After All, 6 February
- Reuters, California rains starting later, extending fire season: study, 4 February
- The Washington Post, The Energy 202: Biden creates new climate adviser role at NASA, 3 February
- ABC News, Study: Pandemic’s cleaner air added heat to warming planet, 2 February
- NPR, The Mystery Of India’s Plummeting COVID-19 Cases, 1 February
January 2021
- Science, Increased tropical cyclone risk to coasts, 29 January
- Universe Today, Iceland is a Similar Environment to Ancient Mars, 28 January
- The Washington Post, Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse, 25 January
- Gizmodo, A Methane Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Over 1,000 Feet Deep, 25 January
- WMFE (an NPR affiliate in Orlando, Fla.) , The Bahamas Have Ancient Sponges In Underwater Canyons. They Have Something To Say About Climate Change, 25 January
- Live Science, Largest sea on Titan could be more than 1,000 feet deep, 25 January
- Science, Oceans suppress crater formation, 22 January
- Science Friday, Orange Bat, Greenland Bacteria, COVID Anniversary, Alien Argument, 22 January
- IEEE Spectrum, Video Friday: Record-Breaking Drone Show Depicts Life of Van Gogh, 22 January
- Houston Chronicle, Mars once had a climate similar to Iceland, Houston researchers find, 21 January
- Science News, The Parker Solar Probe will have company on its next pass by the sun, 15 January
- Toronto Star, Freshwater lake ice cover faces fragile future: study, 15 January
- Forbes, Soil Loss Costs U.S. Corn Farmers Half a Billion Dollars Each Year, 13 January
- Physics Today, Railways could double as a tool for probing Earth’s shallow crust, 12 January
- Geographical, Return of the dustbowl: why the Great Plains are in trouble, 12 January
- IFL Science, Scientists Discover Mars Wobbles As It Spins, 11 January
- Medium, Will Global Warming Cause Runaway Methane Emissions?, 10 January
- The Washington Post, Women and minorities in weather and climate fields confront harassment, lack of inclusion, 9 January
- Space.com, Meet Au-Spot, the AI robot dog that’s training to explore caves on Mars, 7 January
- Voice of San Diego, Environment Report: How We Know Humans Are Warming the Planet, 4 January
- Science News, What the pandemic can teach us about ways to reduce air pollution, 4 January
- Space.com, Earth’s atmosphere is full of microbes. Could they help us find life on other worlds?, 4 January
- Salon, One in three US rivers have changed color since 1984. Here’s what this means, 3 January
- Journal: The Color of Rivers
- National Geographic, Does lightning strike on Venus? Mysterious flash may help solve puzzle, 1 January
- Science, Mapping the global threat of land subsidence, 1 January
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