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What do ice cores tells us about climate change?

BBC World Service’s The Climate Question—stories on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that, spotlights how ice cores from Antarctica to Peru’s Quelccaya…

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Southern Indian Ocean Warming Drives Rising Summer Temperatures in East Antarctica’s Interior

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that summer warming deep inside East Antarctica is being driven by rapid ocean warming thousands of kilometers away in the southern Indian…

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Byrd Center Researchers Lead Field Expedition to Study Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap

Researchers led by The Ohio State University's Earth Sciences Professor Lonnie Thompson, a Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Center's Ice Core Paleoclimatology research group and a…

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Precession Drove Opposing Monsoon Patterns Over Millennia in Asia and Australia, Study Finds

A new international study has uncovered how subtle changes in Earth's orbit triggered opposing rainfall patterns between Asia and Australia over the past 300,000 years. The research, published in…

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New High-Resolution Method Reveals Accelerated Ice Loss at Greenland's Margins

A new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters introduces a powerful technique to measure ice mass loss in Greenland with unprecedented spatial detail, particularly along the ice…

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What is 'corn sweat' and how does it exacerbate heat waves?

Principal Investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and State Climatologist of Ohio, Aaron Wilson,  shared with ABC News how mid-summer marks the peak of corn’s maturity,…

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Understanding Urban Warming in Rajshahi City Through Thermal Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis

A recent study published in Sustainability explores the patterns and causes of wintertime urban warming in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh. The study was co-authored by Dr. Md Rejaur Rahman of the…

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Glacier Collapse in Swiss Alps Highlights Dangers of Climate-Driven Instability

On May 28, 2025, a catastrophic landslide obliterated approximately 90% of the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley. The disaster was triggered by the collapse of the Birch…

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Urbint Acquires StormImpact to Help Utilities Strengthen Resiliency Against Extreme Weather

The Ohio State University startup weather analytics company  StormImpact, co-founded by Byrd Center Principal Investigator and Professor Steven Quiring (Geography), was recently acquired by…