Shutdown of coal-fired plants in US saves lives and improves crop yields
Between 2005 and 2016, the shift away from coal saved an estimated 26,610 lives and 570 million bushels of cropsCredit: ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Researchers use remote sensing to estimate nitrogen deposition in North China
Credit: Zhen Wang Northern China, a hotspot of air pollution, has always been an area of great interest to study ...
Study confirms climate change impacted Hurricane Florence’s precipitation and size
Credit: Stony Brook University The News in Brief: A new modeling framework showed that Hurricane Florence produced more extreme rainfall ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Calvinia moving away from Mauritius
Credit: NASA Worldview Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite on Dec. 31 revealed that Tropical Cyclone Calvinia had moved south ...
NASA finds a weaker Sarai now a depression
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with an image ...
NASA tracks Tropical Storm Sarai moving away from Fiji
Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean on Dec. 30 and found that Tropical Storm ...
NASA sees Mauritius covered by Tropical Storm Calvinia
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Cyclone Calvinia formed on Dec. 29 and by the next day, its clouds from a ...
NASA finds heavy rain potential in tropical storm Sarai
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Sarai using infrared light to determine ...
NASA finds an elongated Phanfone now a tropical storm
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image ...
NASA satellite tracks tropical storm Phanfone into the South China Sea
Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Storm Phanfone brought typhoon-force winds and heavy rains across sections of the Philippines on Christmas Eve ...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds development of Tropical Cyclone Sarai
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed that a ...
Untangling links between nitrogen oxides and airborne sulfates helps tackle hazy air pollution
Credit: Liu Guorui Dense, hazy fog episodes characterized by relatively high humidity, low visibility and extremely high PM2.5 have been ...
NASA sees Typhoon Phanfone landfall in the Philippines
Credit: Credit: NOAA/NASA Worldview Typhoon Phanfone, known locally in the Philippines as Ursula, was making landfall in the central part ...
NASA analyzes Tropical Cyclone Phanfone’s water vapor concentration
Credit: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the intensity ...
OU geoscientists document 300 million year old atmospheric dust
OU geoscientists document the role of atmospheric dust on marine ecosystems 300 million years agoCredit: University of Oklahoma Dust plays ...
Ecological impacts of palm stearin spill to the coastal ecosystem
HKU marine ecologists reveal ecological impacts of the accidental palm stearin spill to the coastal ecosystem of Hong KongCredit: @The ...
It’s a small (coal-polluted) world, after all
Credit: Frank Dunnivant A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry underscores that the release of pollutants in one region ...
State of the climate over the Three Gorges Region of the Yangtze River in 2018
Credit: Wei Li The Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze River is a large-scale water conservancy project that attracts worldwide ...
If the world can capture carbon, there’s capacity to store it
Humankind will need to harness carbon capture and storage technologies to help keep global warming to 2 degrees C or ...
Seasonal forecasts challenged by Pacific Ocean warming
Credit: CSHOR CSIRO research has found global warming will make it more difficult to predict multi-year global climate variations, a ...
