Soot may only be half the problem when it comes to cookstoves
Researchers find organic carbons are also absorbing light -- and likely harming people's healthCredit: Washington University in St. Louis A ...
Tag: Atmospheric Chemistry
Livestock and poultry farming should be the future focus of agricultural ammonia emissions control
Credit: Jiayu Huang As the only alkaline gas in the atmosphere, ammonia can react with sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides ...
Extra-tropical Cyclone Harold caught by NASA’s Terra Satellite
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific ...
NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Harold between Vanuatu and Fiji
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Harold brought heavy rains and hurricane-force ...
NASA finds heavy rainfall in powerful tropical cyclone Harold
Credit: Credit: JAXA/Jason West, NASA EOSDIS One of NASA's satellites that can measure the rate in which rainfall is occurring ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Irondro’s heavy rainfall displaced
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Irondro's rainfall and found heaviest rainfall was being pushed far southeast of the center ...
How old are whale sharks? Nuclear bomb legacy reveals their age
Cold War testing radioactivity used to determine longevity of largest fish on EarthCredit: NOAA Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold ...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches Tropical Cyclone Harold develop near Solomon Islands
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Pacific ...
NASA sees tropical cyclone Irondro developing an eye
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview As Tropical Cyclone Irondro continues to move through the Southern Indian Ocean, NASA's Terra satellite saw ...
NASA finds heavy rain potential in new Tropical Cyclone Irondro
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in the newly formed Tropical Cyclone Irondro using infrared light to determine ...
The candy-cola soda geyser experiment, at different altitudes
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Chemical Education 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b01177 Dropping Mentos® candies into a bottle of soda causes a ...
Flooding stunted 2019 cropland growing season, resulting in more atmospheric CO2
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Severe flooding throughout the Midwest--which triggered a delayed growing season for crops in the region--led to a reduction ...
International ozone treaty stops changes in Southern Hemisphere winds
Study adds to evidence showing effectiveness of Montreal ProtocolCredit: NASA Chemicals that deplete Earth's protective ozone layer have also been ...
Ships’ emissions create measurable regional change in clouds
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory A container ship leaves a trail of white clouds in its wake that can linger in ...
NASA find Herold a fading ex-tropical cyclone
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Former Tropical Cyclone Herold is now a fading area of low-pressure in the Southern Indian Ocean ...
NASA finds little strength left in Tropical Cyclone Herold
Credit: NASA/NRL Wind shear pushed former Tropical Cyclone Herold apart and infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed the system ...
NASA analyzes tropical cyclone Herold’s water vapor concentration
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean on Mar. 18, it gathered water vapor ...
Tropical Cyclone Herold’s eye opens further on NASA satellite imagery
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview As Tropical Cyclone Herold intensified, its eye appeared more defined in imagery taken by NASA's Terra ...
Even a limited India-Pakistan nuclear war would bring global famine, says study
Soot from firestorms would reduce crop production for yearsCredit: Adapted from Jägermeyr et al., 2020 The concept of nuclear winter--a ...
NASA finds Gretel becoming extra-tropical
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean and captured an image of Tropical Storm ...