Tag: Climate Change

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites passed over the Eastern ...

Getting more heat out of sunlight

Material developed at MIT can passively capture solar heat for home heating or industrial applicationsCredit: Lin Zhao CAMBRIDGE, MA -- ...

Scientists discover processes to lower methane emissions from animals

Credit: University of Otago University of Otago scientists are part of an international research collaboration which has made an important ...

UCI, UC Merced: California forest die-off caused by depletion of deep-soil water

Study warns of threats from future concurrent drought and heat eventsCredit: Margot Wholey / UC Merced Irvine, Calif., July 1, ...

Scientists, students to conduct first live, interactive public broadcasts from arctic ocean

On an 18-day voyage July 18 -- August 4, 2019 US/Canadian team of experts and students to measure vital signs ...

Analysis finds US ecosystems shifting hundreds of miles north

Credit: Craig Chandler/University Communication/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked ...

NASA finds winds tore Tropical Storm 04W apart

Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone 04W had been torn apart from wind shear in ...

NASA looks at Tropical Storm Barbara’s heavy rainfall

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Storm Barbara formed on Sunday, June 30 in the Eastern Pacific Ocean over 800 miles from the ...

Two-degree climate goal attainable without early infrastructure retirement

But achieving 1.5-degree climate-stabilizing goal requires power plants and other energy infrastructure to be retired earlyCredit: Public domain Washington, DC--If ...

Current pledges to phase out coal power are critically insufficient to slow climate change

Credit: Udo Schlög The Powering Past Coal Alliance, or PPCA, is a coalition of 30 countries and 22 cities and ...

Our water cycle diagrams give a false sense of water security

Credit: Photo by Ben Abbott EAST LANSING, Mich. - Pictures of the earth's water cycle used in education and research ...

How to protect corals facing climate change

Conserving a wide range of coral habitats is the best strategyCredit: Michelle Stuart/Rutgers University-New Brunswick The best way to protect ...

Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2019

Credit: Adam Malin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Materials--Soft drink science Oak Ridge National Laboratory has teamed with ...

‘Committed’ CO2 emissions jeopardize international climate goals, UCI-led study finds

Existing, planned fossil fuel-burning infrastructure must be retired early, replaced Irvine, Calif. - The nations that have signed agreements to ...

The 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting has opened its doors

Scientists from 89 countries meet with 39 Nobel Laureates Following the topic cycle, this year's programme is dedicated to physics. ...

New model suggests lost continents for early Earth

Credit: Derrick Hasterok A new radioactivity model of Earth's ancient rocks calls into question current models for the formation of ...

Scientists alarmed by bark beetle boom

Credit: Rainer Simonis / Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald "Bark beetles lay waste to forests" - "Climate change sends beetles into overdrive" ...

Well-meaning climate measures can make matters worse

Lifestyle changes can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and help protect nature. While some actions offer great potential, some aren't ...

Local solutions to global climate challenges — NSF grant

June 27, 2019

Credit: Virginia Tech With extreme environmental events, such as drought, coastal and river flooding, and wildfires, increasing in frequency, there ...

UT study shows how to produce natural gas while storing carbon dioxide