Fast-growing parts of africa see a surprise: less air pollution from seasonal fires
But growing urban emissions mean reprieve may be only temporaryCredit: Kyu Lee/Earth Institute, Columbia University Often, when populations and economies ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Mixed and matched: Integrating metal-organic frameworks into polymers for CO2 separation
New strategy boosts the performance of membranes for filtering CO2 from industrial emissionsCredit: Chris LeBoutillier on Pexels One of humanity's ...
New timeline of deadliest California wildfire could guide lifesaving research and action
Credit: NIST On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte ...
New research reveals drivers of regionally different ozone responses to the COVID-19
Credit: TANG Rong The outbreak of COVID-19 raised a question about the relationship between anthropogenic emissions and air pollution, which ...
Arctic stew: Understanding how high-latitude lakes respond to and affect climate change
Credit: Paul Sibley To arrive at Nunavut, turn left at the Dakotas and head north. You can't miss it--the vast ...
Forests of the world in 3D
Research team led by the University of Göttingen analyses complexity of forest structureCredit: Dominik Seidel Primeval forests are of great ...
Chinese scientists use knowledge from climate system modeling to develop a global prediction system for the COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: Chuwei Liu At the time of writing, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is seriously threatening human lives and health throughout ...
Fast-flying bats rely on late-night updrafts to reach great heights
Credit: Teague O'Mara Although scientists knew that some bats could reach heights of over 1,600 meters (or approximately one mile) ...
A team of climatologists is studying how to minimize errors in observed climate trend
Experts in climatology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, the State Meteorology Agency and the University of Bonn (Germany) make ...
Extreme UV laser shows generation of atmospheric pollutant
Credit: Taro Sekikawa Hokkaido University scientists show that under laboratory conditions, ultraviolet light reacts with nitrophenol to produce smog-generating nitrous ...
Dynamics of radiocesium in forests after the Fukushima disaster: Concerns and some hope
Scientists compile available data and analyses on the flow of radionuclides to gain a more holistic understandingCredit: Forestry and Forest ...
Study indicates US cities underestimate their GHG emissions by nearly 20%
Some cities' self-reported emissions are as much as 145% below standardized estimates, distorting data on which climate change policy actions ...
Failed storage tanks pose atmospheric risks during disasters
Rice study models how spilled chemicals likely spread during Ike, HarveyCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 1, 2021) - When ...
More than meets the eye (of the storm): Typhoons in Korea amplified wildfires in America
Study shows that cyclones could affect seemingly unrelated weather disasters in an entirely different continentCredit: NASA on Unsplash The year ...
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