Heat Absorption Oceans play a crucial role in absorbing excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, they take in over 90% of this heat, acting as a massive buffer against global ...

2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level, another record. Seeking to identify the causes of this ...

Albedo is a measure of Earth’s reflectance ... Oxygen-isotope evidence from ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth’s surface 4,300 Myr ago. Nature 409, 178–181 (2001).

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around the Red Planet. This composite image, from NASA Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth ...

The Antarctic ice sheet covers 8.3% of the Earth’s surface and is the largest store ... In doing so, they keep the Earth cool (this is called the albedo effect). But as we lose those vast ...