NASA satellite imagery finds Rebekah now post-tropical
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Terra Satellite provided a visible image of Post-Tropical Cyclone Rebekah as it continued moving in an easterly ...
Tag: Climate Change
Four decades of data sounds early warning on Lake George
Deep-water increases in salt and nutrients haven't reached harmful levels and are reversibleCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- Although ...
Harvesting genes to improve watermelons
An international team of researchers have created a resource that could help plant breeders increase the domestic watermelon's quality and ...
Rice yields plummet and arsenic rises in future climate-soil scenarios
Credit: (Image credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service) Rice is the largest global staple crop, consumed by more than half the ...
NASA gets infrared view of Atlantic Halloween subtropical storm
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The latest addition to the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season developed quickly. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the ...
Ancient rhinos roamed the Yukon
Credit: Julius Csotonyi In 1973, a teacher named Joan Hodgins took her students on a hike near Whitehorse in Canada's ...
NASA sees development of Tropical Storm Maha at southwestern India Coast
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Storm Maha has developed near the coastline of southwestern India and NASA's Terra satellite provided ...
NASA finds small area of heavy rain left in Tropical Cyclone Kyarr
Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Kyarr appears to be winding down as it moves through the Arabian Sea and NASA ...
Study shows how climate change may affect environmental conservation areas
Researchers classify 258 protected areas in Brazil as 'moderately vulnerable' and 17 as 'highly vulnerable' -- areas at greatest risk ...
Land restoration in Ethiopia pays off but climate change necessitates many strategies
A combination of land restoration activities can boost crop yields -- in some cases as much as 170 percent -- ...
Researchers describe how Vitamin E works in plants under extreme conditions
Retrograde signalling: From chloroplast to the nucleusCredit: Sergi Munné-Bosch (Research Group ANTIOX of the University of Barcelona) Vitamin E is ...
Abrupt shifts in Arctic climate projected
Likelihood of an abrupt increase in wildfires also notedCredit: Northwest Territories Geological Survey Researchers from McGill University project that as ...
NASA find Tropical Cyclone Kyarr with a cloud-filled eye
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Cyclone Kyarr has maintained its eye, although that eye has ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Matmo consolidating off Vietnam coast
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of Tropical ...
Drones help map Iceland’s disappearing glaciers
A new 3D process which involves old aerial photos and modern-day drone photography has shed light on accelerated ice loss ...
Unexpected outcomes: Damages to Puerto Rican coffee farms from Hurricane Maria varied
Credit: Levi Stroud/U-M College of LSA. ANN ARBOR--University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer have studied Latin American ...
Harmful emissions from traffic, trucks, SUVs: New national air pollution report
Study of near-road air pollution in Canadian cities raises questions about health risks to one-third of population living near a ...
Preserved pollen tells the history of floodplains
Credit: M.C. Ricker Many of us think about pollen only when allergy season is upon us. However, for soil scientists ...
Largest mapping of breathing ocean floor key to understanding global carbon cycle
Published in Nature Scientific DataCredit: Photographer: Dr Johannes Lemburg, Alfred Wegener Institute Marine sediments play a crucial role in the ...
New grant will help scientists study how cover crops affect plant disease
Credit: Christopher Gannon AMES, Iowa - A multi-state experiment that recently received a major grant will examine how planting cover ...
