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Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice
The Polarstern, released too early from a floe, returned to the North Pole in August amid thin ice. Steffen Graupner Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice By Paul VoosenAug. 25, 2020 , 1:30 PM In March, soon after arriving aboard the Polarstern, a German icebreaker frozen into Arctic sea ice, Jennifer Hutchings watched as ice broke up around the ship, weeks earlier than… → Read More
After 40 years, researchers finally see Earth’s climate destiny more clearly
Landmark study narrows bounds for “climate sensitivity,” ruling out benign warming → Read More
Alaskan megaeruption may have helped end the Roman Republic
Okmok blast veiled sky 1 year after Julius Caesar’s murder → Read More
Underwater robot reveals hidden base of Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier
Icefin robot swam more than 1 kilometer to reach Thwaites Glacier’s grounding line → Read More
NASA rover catches big whiff of methane on Mars—but where did it come from?
NASA rover catches big whiff of methane on Mars—but where did it come from? By Paul VoosenJun. 24, 2019 , 12:35 PM Last week, NASA’s Curiosity rover caught its strongest whiff yet of martian methane. While exploring a clay-rich region of the Red Planet, the rover detected the highest levels of the gas it has ever observed, some 21 parts per billion. That’s three times the level it sniffed out… → Read More
Vacuuming potato-size nodules of valuable metals in the deep sea, and an expedition to an asteroid 290 million kilometers away
On this week’s show: the environmental costs of deep-sea mining and a trip to the distant asteroid Ryugu → Read More
Astronomers discover solar system’s most distant object, nicknamed ‘FarFarOut’
The solar system’s most distant object is 140 times farther from the sun than Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers discover solar system’s most distant object, nicknamed ‘FarFarOut’ By Paul VoosenFeb. 21, 2019 , 10:15 PM For most people, snow days aren’t very productive. Some people, though, use the time to discover the most distant object in the solar system. That’s what Scott Sheppard, an… → Read More
How far out we can predict the weather, and an ocean robot that monitors food webs
On this week’s show: Chaos puts a limit on how far out we can predict weather, and why researchers are using autonomous robots to sample phytoplankton off of Norway’s coast → Read More
Indonesian earthquake broke a geologic speed limit
“Supershear” earthquake on a common kind of fault could raise hazard risks → Read More
Shutdown imperils NASA’s decadelong ice-measuring campaign
Impasse has stopped air flights critical to sustaining satellite records → Read More
Martian methane—spotted in 2004—has mysteriously vanished
The European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter deepens planet’s carbon mystery → Read More
Artificial intelligence helps predict volcanic eruptions
Global warning system based on data from existing satellites could be just a couple years away → Read More
NASA to pay private space companies for moon rides
Experiments on commercial landers could confirm a wetter, more active moon → Read More
Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans
The 31-kilometer-wide Hiawatha crater may have formed as recently as 12,800 years ago when a 1.5-kilometer asteroid struck Earth → Read More
NASA's next Mars rover could explore former mineral springs and a fossil river delta
Compromise puts two landing sites in play for 2020 rover → Read More
Fields of five-story-high ice blades could complicate landing on Jupiter moon
Europa’s equator could be strewn with 15-meter-tall “pentinentes” → Read More
Newly discovered ‘goblin’ world hints at the presence of Planet Nine
Dwarf planet is the most distant object known to orbit the sun → Read More
Massive drought or myth? Scientists spar over an ancient climate event behind our new geological age
Uncertainty dogs 4200-year-old drought used to define the Meghalayan → Read More
Europa is venting water into space, old spacecraft data suggest
Jupiter’s ocean moon a target in search for life next decade → Read More
Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts
$10 million research line used satellites and aircraft to monitor carbon sources and sinks → Read More