Hydrothermal vents are hotspots of activity on the otherwise dark, cold ocean floor. Since their discovery, scientists have been intrigued by these deep ocean…
The new publication for the first time shows the inevitable consequence of such an event. According to the computer simulations, a few decades of ocean warming…
“We hear all the time about how sea ice extent in the Arctic is going down,” says Katy Barnhart, who led the study while at CU-Boulder's Institute for Arctic…
Methane hydrates are a kind of ice that contains methane, and that form at certain depths under the sea or buried in permafrost. They can also form in…
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that…
Researchers derived their results by tracking ice sheet movement through Landsat satellite images taken from 1985 to 2014 across a roughly 3,088-square-mile…