On July 17, 2016, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there.
A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science research team is studying sea spray to help improve forecasting of hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
Researchers studied storm development from the Pliocene era, roughly three million years ago, because it was the last time Earth had as much carbon dioxide as it does now.