Texas A&M Oceanographer Matthew Schmidt's new study provides evidence for the trigger of abrupt climate change in Earth's recent past. His article, published recently in Paleoceanography, details how foraminifera that lived near the surface and on the bottom of the ocean give us clues about the how the climate has changed since the end of the last ice age.

Texas A&M atmospheric scientist and Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon was recently featured in news stories about the Texas drought, now considered the worst in a century, on CBS News and local television station KBTX. Nielsen-Gammon says the drought is probably more severe than anything we’ve ever had and will become the drought of record.

This Thanksgiving weekend, NASA will launch its largest and most advanced Martian rover on a mission to study the past climate of our planetary neighbor. No stranger to robotic exploration, Texas A&M atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon is part of the team operating the Mars Science Laboratory rover, also known as Curiosity, that will touch down at Gale Crater next August.