Agricultural pickers in US to see unsafely hot workdays double by 2050
Credit: Tigchelaar et al./Environmental Research Letters The global pandemic has put a focus on essential workers, those we rely on ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Is planet Earth young or old?
Credit: World Scientific The Age of the Earth -- A Physicist's Odyssey spells out how the age of our planet has ...
Investigating the causes of the ozone levels in the Valderejo Nature Reserve
A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country analyses the influence of ozone formation precursors in the ReserveCredit: UPV/EHU ...
NASA catches formation and final fate of Eastern Pacific’s Tropical Depression 1E
Credit: NASA/NRL The Eastern Pacific Ocean's hurricane season may not officially start until mid-May, but the first tropical cyclone of ...
Assessing El Niño’s impact on fisheries and aquaculture around the world
Credit: © IRD - Arnaud Bertrand While considerable resources are invested in seasonal forecasts and early-warning systems for food security, ...
Caribbean coral reef decline began in 1950s and 1960s from local human activities
Credit: NOAA Not long ago, the azure waters of the Caribbean contained healthy and pristine coral reef environments dominated by ...
Spotting air pollution with satellites, better than ever before
Machine learning algorithm uses high-resolution micro-satellite imagery and weather data to detect levels of harmful air pollution with as much ...
The best things come in small packages
Successful application of a miniaturized instrument for carbon dioxide vertical observationsCredit: Pengfei Han Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse ...
Penn Engineers’ ‘nanocardboard’ flyers could serve as martian atmospheric probes
Credit: Bargatin Group, Penn Engineering This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with ...
North pole will be ice-free in summer
Study shows that if CO2 emissions are reduced rapidly, ice-free years may only occur occasionallyCredit: Dirk Notz Summer Arctic sea-ice ...
Lung injury in COVID-19 is not high altitude pulmonary edema
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 20, 2020--A group of researchers with experience in treating high ...
Princeton scientist solves air quality puzzle: Why does ozone linger long after its ban?
Drought-stressed plants are less able to remove ozone from the air, despite laws limiting pollution from cars, trucks and factories, ...
Latest findings from expanded research on Antarctic meteorology and climate
AAS special issue: 'Antarctic Meteorology and Climate: Past Present and Future'Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences The April 18 special issue ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Jeruto’s displaced rainfall
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL NASA analyzed weakening Tropical Storm Jeruto's rainfall and found one small area of moderate rainfall displaced from the ...
Eco-friendly Oxy-CFBC technology to implement stackless power plant
FEPCRC in KIER develops Oxy-CFBC technology to separate CO2 over 90% at 60% of O2 as an oxidant for combustion. ...
Bees point to new evolutionary answers
Climate change snapshot in Fijian highlandsCredit: Courtesy James Dorey Evolutionary biology aims to explain how new species arise and evolve ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Jeruto develop in Southern Indian Ocean
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) The latest tropical cyclone to develop in the Southern ...
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 ...
New research helps explain why the solar wind is hotter than expected
Credit: Courtesy of Cary Forest / UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide ...
Reducing sulfur dioxide emissions alone cannot substantially decrease air pollution
Credit: Qianqian Zhang High loadings of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during haze are mostly produced from the chemical reactions of ...