NASA tracks a weaker Typhoon Wutip through northwestern Pacific
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed that ...
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More extreme coastal weather events likely to increase bluff erosion, landslide activity
Credit: Ben Leshchinsky, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Unstable slopes on Oregon's coastline could see a 30 percent jump ...
‘Dead zone’ volume more important than area to fish, fisheries
Dubravko Justic, the Texaco Distinguished Professor in the LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, and Research Associate Lixia Wang ...
NASA finds heavy rainfall potential in new Tropical Cyclone Pola
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Pola formed in the South Pacific Ocean on February 26 and the Fiji Meteorological Services ...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds Typhoon Wutip’s eye clouded
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern ...
Can we address climate change without sacrificing water quality?
Some efforts at reducing carbon emissions could actually increase the risk of water quality impairments, researchers findCredit: NASA Earth Observatory, ...
How power-to-gas technology can be green and profitable
Economists map out economically viable path to renewables-based hydrogen production Hydrogen production based on wind power can already be commercially ...
Indigenous knowledge, key to a successful ecosystem restoration
Ecological restoration projects actively involving indigenous peoples and local communities are more successful. This is the result of a study ...
Scientists simulate forest and fire dynamics to understand area burn of future wildfires
Credit: Malcolm North Climate change and wildfire - It's a combustible mix with costly devastation and deadly consequences. With a ...
Jacob Job lands grant from the National Geographic Society to study songbirds, humans
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography Jacob Job spends a lot of time each year in the great outdoors, recording the ...
130,000 years of data show peatlands store carbon long-term
First study of the extent of global peatland and carbon storage over the last 130,000 years fills in key knowledge ...
Predicting how forests in the western US will respond to changing climate
On the mountain slopes of the western United States, climate can play a major role in determining which tree communities ...
Spring migration is now earlier in European and North American birds
Credit: Aleksi Lehikoinen The greatest advances were found among short-distance migrants that winter in Europe or North America: about 1.5-2 ...
Report cards show continued sea-level rise on East & Gulf coasts
Nearly all non-Alaskan West Coast tide stations also saw higher seasCredit: © J.D. Loftis/VIMS. Researchers at William & Mary's Virginia ...
Super Typhoon Wutip’s 25 mile-wide eye seen by NASA-NOAA satellite
Credit: NOAA/NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Wutip has strengthened into a powerful super ...
High CO2 levels can destabilize marine layer clouds
Loss of low-level clouds can lead to a spike in global warming, new study shows At high enough atmospheric carbon ...
New marine protected area established in the Batangas Province of the Philippines
Community-driven MPA a major conservation victory for the 'center of the center' of marine biodiversityCredit: © Joseph Ascalon / SEA ...
Antarctic flies protect fragile eggs with ‘antifreeze’
Temperature-resistant gel helps the eggs of wingless flies survive the extreme conditions of the southern continent.Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative ...
Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to ‘maybe.’
New precise ages for Deccan Traps volcanoes ties the second major eruption pulse to the mass extinctionCredit: Gerta Keller, Department ...
Captured carbon dioxide converts into oxalic acid to process rare earth elements
Credit: Nathan Shaiyen/Michigan Tech Until now, carbon dioxide has been dumped in oceans or buried underground. Industry has been reluctant ...