Scour marks left by icebergs that ran aground thousands of years ago record the winds blowing off the Laurentide Ice Sheet.

June 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A quick refresher: What is El Niño and how can it affect global weather patterns? El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular recurring cycle that transfers vast amounts of heat and momentum from the tropical Pacific to the global atmosphere. It is triggered every 3–7 years when the #

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The last year was marked by turmoil at science agencies and the administration’s stated desire to shrink the federal workforce.

Eaglets emerged from eggs on Easter weekend at San Bernardino national forest watched by thousands online

Sediment cores extracted from deep under the Aegean Sea reveal the timing of explosive eruptions of Kolumbo Volcano and a potential link to neighboring Santorini.

Enormous provinces of superheated mantle exert a powerful influence over our planet’s magnetic field, researchers have discovered.

A new study illuminates a complex and changing world of microbes and nitrogen cycling that occurs during the winter.

The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

Unusually warm ocean waters can amplify extreme rainfall in downwind areas, leaving coastal communities—especially those in developing countries—at risk.

Changing winter conditions influence snow and ice accumulation in inland waterbodies Diverse communities of primary producers are responsible for the fixation of inorganic carbon year-round Guil...

Divisions and rotators disappear as more career staff become supervisors

The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time

The project lost its data stream in 2022 after the war in Ukraine began

Invasive species alter habitats and biological communities. The giant river prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man 1879) was introduced to Brazil for aquaculture, and invasive populations have estab...

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For over a century, ecologists have used the concept of trophic state (TS) to characterize an aquatic ecosystem's biological productivity. However, multiple TS classification schemes, each relying on....

News releases from IAGLR and the large lake research community.

Using both existing and newly launched monitoring instruments, researchers work to better understand air quality during and after the Los Angeles wildfires.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California) peered into the crystal-blue depths of Lake Tahoe as a crew from the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, or TERC, lowered a white disk into the water. “I can see about...

From a research boat on Tahoe, Sen. Adam Schiff pledged to "keep science alive."

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