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Study explores ecological effects of phage resistance in marine setting
Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to…
Midwest Moxie's executive producer is Audrey Nowakowski.
Steven Quiring knew his technology solved a problem for utilities. And based on projects he’d been involved in, he knew…
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…
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…
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 world…
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 …
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…
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, when…
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…
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…
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 Urbint,…
A recent international study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a new forecasting method that significantly enhances the prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)…
We congratulate Kara Lamantia and Forrest Schoessow, who defended their Ph.D. dissertations successfully.
Kara defended her dissertation on May 7, 2025. Her research, titled …
In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been over oil, “the wars of the next century will be fought over water.”
In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers provided critical insights into the microbial interactions driving methane emissions in freshwater wetlands, a significant…
On March 20–21, 2025, global experts convened at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to celebrate the inaugural World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day. Among the events held on March 21 was the side…
Over spring break, from March 7–14, members of the Byrd Center's Glacier Environmental Change group undertook a winter field expedition to the mountains of Nevada to gather critical data on…
The 39th annual Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum took place on Friday, February 28, 2025, at The Ohio State University's Ohio Union. It brought together graduate students and postdoctoral…
A recent review by a group of international researchers published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing…
Earlier this week, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to scholarship, leadership, and service, Distinguished University Professors from the Byrd Center Ice Core Paleoclimatology…
In celebration of this year's Chemists Celebrate Earth Week theme, "Glaciers: Hot Topic, Cool Chemistry!", science journalist Meg A. Mole conducted an insightful interview with…
A new study published in Science of Remote Sensing presents a substantial improvement in reconstructing missing data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its…
The Ohio State University researchers are pioneering a promising climate change mitigation strategy by exploring the carbon capture potential of concrete weathering in soil. Brittany Multer…
A new report titled Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics and Policy, Fall 2024 published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YCCC), explores how American voters…
A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience reveals that in response to climate change, the Greenland Ice Sheet is developing significantly more surface crevasses in key regions …
A novel initiative has been launched in a pioneering effort led by Senior Research Associate Stephanie (Konfal) Sherman, a group member with Byrd Center's POLENET: The Polar Earth Observing…
The Voices of Excellence podcast, interviews with The Ohio State University researchers at the cutting edge of the arts and sciences, has released a fascinating two-part series featuring…
In a recent article in The Conversation, Professor Brent Sohngen From the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University, examines the…
In September 2024, the Byrd Center's Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group (ICPRG) joined a scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, often referred to as Asia's "water tower," to…
A recent study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, authored by an international team including lead researcher Professor David Bromwich from the Department of…
In 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation (IYGP). This resolution also established March 21 as the annual…
In a recent study published in Nature, an international research team including Michael Bevis and C.K. Shum—professors at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences and…
This year, the Henry Brecher Technical Achievement Award proudly recognizes Assistant State Climatologist Jim DeGrand for his outstanding contributions to the Ohio Mesonet, a project under the…
Last month, the European Geosciences Union's (EGU's) The Cryosphere published a study investigating the interaction between ice-shelf channels and the grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier…
Tropical glaciers are losing ice more rapidly than most other regions worldwide, and the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru’s Andes Mountains, the largest tropical glacier, is no exception. For 50 years,…
A new study reveals that human activities have polluted some of the Earth’s most isolated areas. By analyzing ice cores from the Guliya ice cap in Tibet, researchers found clear shifts in lead…
In a significant environmental study led by researchers at The Ohio State University and collaborators from Texas A&M University, scientists have uncovered the historic and ongoing sources of lead…
Rapid warming has impacted the northern ecosystem so significantly that scientists are concerned the region’s vegetation is losing the ability to recover from climate shocks, suggests a…
Natural climate patterns such as El Niño are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has found.
A phenomenon that typically occurs…
An international team of scientists, including four researchers from The Ohio State University, highlighted microbes' vital role in achieving a sustainable future in a new article published in
The European Space Agency's (ESA's) CryoSat mission has provided invaluable insights on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf in West Antarctica, as detailed in the study "Basal channels,…
Researchers from The Ohio State University, led by former Byrd Center member Kyungmin Sung, now a research fellow at the Korea Environment Institute, examined how droughts and rainfall extremes…
Geography Ph.D. candidate and Byrd Center's Glacier Environmental Change Group member Tal Shutkin has been awarded the prestigious 2023-2024 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad …
Researchers at The Ohio State University have made a significant discovery in understanding how viruses preserved in glacial ice have adapted to Earth's climatic changes. The study, led by Byrd…