June Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) are now available, and we can see ocean temps dropping further after a short pause and resuming the downward trajectory from the previous 12 months.

The fossilized remains of a tiny bird that lived 62 million years ago suggest that birds burst out of the evolutionary gates once their dinosaur cousins were gone, rapidly diversifying into most of the lineages we see today.

Antarctic sea ice extent has been increasing since 1979 and reached a record high in 2014.

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Volcanic eruptions such as Mount St. Helens’ in 1980 show the explosiveness of magma moving through Earth’s crust. Now geologists are excited about what uplifted granite bodies such as Yosemite’s El Capitan say about magma that freezes before it can erupt on the surface.

A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded – has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away.

Almost one-third of Europeans falsely believe that the polar ice caps have already melted, according to a poll published Tuesday.

NY Magazine Published Its Inconvenient Interview With One Of The World’s Most Famous Climate Scientists

Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann was quick to criticize a New York Magazine article claiming that man-made global warming could make the Earth “uninhabitable” by the end of the century.

However, a transcript released Monday suggests a divergence between what Mann said publicly versus what he told the New York Magazine writer in an interview.

Scientists have discovered a new “anti-antiaphrodisiac” pheromone released by female insects. The pheromone lets males know when the female insects are ready to mate again.

The essence of the argument that an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide, an infrared-active or greenhouse gas, causes the Earth’s surface to become warmer lies in a radiation-dominant viewpoint in the transport of energy between the surface and the atmosphere.  This viewpoint is depicted in the NASA energy budget shown below:

It was just reported that Greenland set a new all-time July cold record, where the mercury plummeted to -33°C. Read details here.

A new model giving rise to young planetary systems offers a fresh solution to a puzzle that has vexed astronomers ever since new detection technologies and planet-hunting missions such as NASA’s Kepler space telescope have revealed thousands of planets orbiting other stars: While the majority of these exoplanets fall into a category called super-Earths—bodies with a mass somewhere between Earth and Neptune—most of the features observed in nascent planetary systems were thought to require much more massive planets, rivaling or dwarfing Jupiter, the gas giant in our solar system.

Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII (“ice seven”), found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary bodies collide.

A discontinued vaccine against a bacteria that causes brain inflammation also shielded people against gonorrhea, the first drug ever to offer such protection against the sexually transmitted disease, researchers said Tuesday.

Prior to 1940, July 11 was a very hot day in the US, but July 11 temperatures have plummeted over the last 80 years.

NASA’s Juno mission just hit a high point with a buzzing flyby on Monday night of one of Jupiter’s most notable features: the Great Red Spot, a massive spinning storm that is a focus of fascination for scientists and space fans. This is the closest Juno has been to the distinctive oval-shaped spot, which is twice as wide as Earth.

President Trump has just recently announced that the U.S. will not participate in the Paris Climate Agreement.  He implied that he regarded it as a bad deal for the U.S. economy, while not necessarily disputing its premise that man’s use of fossil fuels was going to cause a disastrous deterioration of the Earth’s climate.