Climate change leads to unprecedented Rocky Mountain wildfires
Credit: Jason Shogren June 14, 2021 - Last fall, the Mullen fire west of Laramie raged for the better part ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
New research finds 1M deaths in 2017 attributable to fossil fuel combustion
Contemporary and comprehensive evaluation of source sector and fuel contributions to the PM2.5 disease burden across over 200 countriesCredit: Lab ...
Microbes in ocean play important role in moderating Earth’s temperature
Methane-eating microbes help regulate Earth's temperatures with remarkably high metabolic rates within seafloor carbonate rocksCredit: Courtesy of Courtesy of the ...
University of Surrey’s extraordinary social impact provides vital support in a year of crisis
Credit: University of Surrey The Measuring Up 2019-20 report has a natural focus on health, exploring how the University has ...
Using machine learning and radar to better understand storm surge risk
Credit: University of Texas at Austin. The types of land around us play an important role in how major storms ...
Lazy, hazy days no more: A call-to-action to better understand air pollution mechanisms
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Earth's atmosphere has a budget, and when expenses outpace savings, secondary aerosols form in areas ...
Effects of ‘Fenton-like’ reactions of ferric oxalate on atmospheric oxidation processes and radiative forcing
Credit: Yu Wang The Fenton reaction is a chemical transition involving hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the ferrous (iron) ion, which ...
Four collaborative research centres at Goethe University receiving funding
German Research Foundation funds new CRC Transregio 326 „Geometry and arithmetic of uniformized structures" - CRC 1039 on medical signal ...
Research grants awarded to regional scientists studying the red sea’s coral reef
This unique reef is expected to be among the last to survive past mid-centuryCredit: © Red Sea Reef Foundation New ...
Soot from heaters and traffic is not just a local problem
Study from Thuringia shows: 50% of the soot that is harmful to health comes from local sources and 50% from ...
Climate protection: Deep decarbonization by 2050 currently not plausible
Credit: Universitaet Hamburg Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS) publishes a new, essential study ...
Māori connections to Antarctica may go as far back as 7th century, new study shows
Credit: © A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica / Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand Indigenous ...
Drone improves odor management in water treatment plants
Credit: SNIFFDRONE, ATTRACT initiative (GA 777222, Horizon 2020). The bad odors produced by the Waste Water Treatment Plants, known as ...
Tree diversity may save the forest: Advocating for biodiversity to mitigate climate change
Credit: Yokohama National University When it comes to climate change, policymakers may fail to see the trees for the forest. ...
Corals tell Arabian Sea story of global warming
Credit: Tsuyoshi Watanabe Coral insights into 1,000 years of seasonal changes in the Arabian Sea warn of significant impacts caused ...
CO2 emissions are rebounding, but clean energy revolutions are emerging
Climate change has worsened each year, but across the globe there are promising signs of real decarbonization, according to UC ...
Five million years of climate change preserved in one place
An 80-meter-thick sedimentary succession at Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan, recorded interactions between land, atmosphere and oceanCredit: Charlotte Prud'homme, MPI for Chemistry ...
Current global environmental law and policy are failing, experts say
In a landmark special issue of Environmental Policy and Law, noted scholars lay out their vision for a complete overhaul ...
Less aviation during the global lockdown had a positive impact on the climate
Scientific study by scientists at Leipzig University, Imperial College London and the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace in ParisCredit: Katarina Werneburg They ...
Mapping intermittent methane emissions across the Permian Basin
Credit: Leslie Von Pless/Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) The Permian Basin, located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, is the ...
