Tag: Climate Change

Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Fani appeared more organized than the previous day. On ...

Rapid permafrost thaw unrecognized threat to landscape, global warming researcher warns

Credit: Carolyn Gibson, University of Guelph PhD student A "sleeping giant" hidden in permafrost soils in Canada and other northern ...

Excessive rainfall as damaging to corn yield as extreme heat, drought

Credit: Graphic courtesy Yan Li CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Recent flooding in the Midwest has brought attention to the complex agricultural ...

Isle Royale winter study: 13 new wolves, 20 radio-collared moose

Credit: Rolf Peterson/Michigan Tech Fifteen wolves. 2,060 moose. Extensive ice and deep, powdery snow. Michigan Tech researchers have released the ...

NASA instrument to more accurately measure ozone discovered by ‘accident’

Credit: NASA/W. Hrybyk NASA research scientist Tom Hanisco set out to build an instrument capable of measuring a short-lived chemical ...

Almost half of World Heritage sites could lose their glaciers by 2100

Credit: IUCN/Martin Price WASHINGTON-- Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage sites if business-as-usual emissions ...

Federal research significant in environmental rule-making

Federally-sponsored science plays a more significant role in bringing together stakeholders and facilitating environmental governance debates than all other types ...

For low-income countries, climate action pays off by 2050

Successful global efforts to substantially limit greenhouse gas emissions would likely boost GDP growth of poorer countries over the next ...

NASA shows winds causing Tropical Cyclone Lorna’s demise

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite saw Tropical Cyclone Lorna was being torn apart by strong northwesterly wind shear in the ...

NASA looks at Tropical Storm Fani’s rainfall rates

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Storm Fani formed in the Northern Indian Ocean over the weekend of April 27 and 28. The ...

Wax helps plants to survive in the desert

Credit: JMU Wuerzburg In 1956, the Würzburg botanist Otto Ludwig Lange observed an unusual phenomenon in the Mauritanian desert in ...

The last chance for Madagascar’s biodiversity

The most important actions needed by Madagascar's new government to prevent species and habitats being lost for everCredit: Copyright Daniel ...

GRACE mission data contributes to our understanding of climate change

The GRACE twin satellite system has contributed two decades worth of crucial data on climate changeCredit: Cockrell School Of Engineering, ...

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