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Los Alpes están "creciendo" constantemente alrededor de uno a dos milímetros por año. Asimismo, los antiguos subcontinentes glaciares de Norteamérica y Escandinavia también están experimentando constantes movimientos ascendentes. 

The dramatic decline of Iran’s Lake Urmia—once the second-largest hypersaline lake in the world—has both direct human and climatic causes, according to a new study published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research.   The study was the first to compare the relative impact of climate and water management on the water flowing into the lake.

A medida que aumentan los niveles de dióxido de carbono atmosférico (CO2), muy pocos ecosistemas de arrecifes de coral podrán evitar el impacto de la acidificación de los océanos o la subida de la temperatura de la superficie del mar, según un nuevo análisis. El daño causará las amenazas más inmediatas y serias donde la dependencia humana de los arrecifes es más alta.

Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the result is a big boost to the stability and efficiency of artificial photosynthesis.

Led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the project is described in a paper published this week in the journal Nature Materials.

The Alps are steadily “growing” by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement. This is due to the fact that at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) about 18,000 years ago the glaciers melted and with this the former heavy pressure on the Earth’s surface diminished. The ice reacted rapidly to climate change at that time whereas the Earth’s crust is still responding today to this relatively sudden melting of ice.