Women generate lower travel-related greenhouse gas emissions, NZ study finds
Credit: University of Otago Women use more diverse modes of travel and generate lower greenhouse gas emissions than men, despite ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Volcanic activity and changes in Earth’s mantle were key to rise of atmospheric oxygen
Credit: David Catling/University of Washington Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great ...
NASA tracks Tropical Depression Cristobal moving toward Great Lakes
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, now a tropical depression in the Mississippi Valley, ...
Nature’s ‘slow lanes’ offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change
Credit: Photo by Garrett Meigs, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas ...
NASA calculates soaking rainfall in Tropical Depression Cristobal
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL When Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall in southern Louisiana yesterday, May 7, it dropped a lot of ...
Climate change has degraded productivity of shelf sea food webs
Credit: Claire Widdicombe A shortage of summer nutrients as a result of our changing climate has contributed to a 50% ...
NASA analyzes Cristobal, the big rainmaker
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared imagery and cloud top temperature data on Tropical Depression Cristobal, and it ...
Mangroves at risk if carbon emissions not reduced by 2050, international scientists predict
Credit: NTU Singapore/Benjamin Horton Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), and an international research team have predicted that ...
NASA infrared imagery indicates cristobal’s heavy rainmaking capabilities
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson One of the ways NASA observes tropical cyclones is by using infrared data that provides ...
Environmental damage from fog reduction is observable from outer space, find hydrologists
IUPUI-led study is the first to find satellite data can detect fog's impact on vegetation levels under climate changeCredit: Image ...
NASA finds Nisarga’s remnants over Central India
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Cyclone Nisarga made landfall in west central India on June 4, and the next day ...
Ocean uptake of CO2 could drop as carbon emissions are cut
Shrinkage due to COVID-19 may provide case in pointCredit: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute Volcanic eruptions and human-caused changes to the atmosphere ...
NASA infrared data shows Tropical Cyclone Nisarga strengthened before landfall
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Satellite data of Tropical Cyclone Nisarga's cloud top temperatures revealed that the storm had strengthened ...
NASA finds heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Cristobal
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The third tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Ocean basin has been generating large amounts of rainfall over ...
Scientists decipher the role of carbon and the break-up of continents
UNM researcher Tobias Fischer part of international collaborationCredit: UNM University of New Mexico (UNM) Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ...
NASA analyzes Gulf of Mexico’s reborn tropical depression soaking potential
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed that strong storms from a redeveloped tropical cyclone were soaking ...
NAU’s Vulcan Project fossil fuel emissions show best match to carbon-14 measurements
Credit: Vulcan Project Results from Northern Arizona University's Vulcan Project estimating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion for ...
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing honors best papers
Awards recognize interdisciplinary applications, theoretical innovation, and photo-optical instrumentation and designAwards recognize interdisciplinary applications, theoretical innovation, and photo-optical instrumentation and ...
NASA catches short-lived Tropical Storm Amanda
Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Storm Amanda, the first of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season, formed on Sunday, May 31, ...
NASA-NOAA satellite sees Tropical Storm Bertha organizing
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) The second tropical storm of the North Atlantic ...