Tag: Climate Change

Credit: University of Plymouth The increased temperature and acidification of our oceans over the next century have been argued to ...

Droughts are threatening global wetlands: new study

Credit: Luke Mosley University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally. Published in ...

Most nations failing to protect nature in COVID-19 pandemic recovery plans

Outbreak provides opportunity to reset economy and reverse ecosystem, species lossesCredit: Pamela McElwee The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to ...

The Colorado river’s water supply is predictable owing to long-term ocean memory

Scientists develop new tool to forecast drought and water flow in the Colorado riverCredit: Photo by Stephen Walker A team ...

Idaho laboratory joins national research programs for making ‘green’ hydrogen

Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Idaho National Laboratory is a member of two new Department of Energy research consortia charged with ...

UCI, others see agriculture as major source of increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide

Long-lived greenhouse gas could hinder international climate goals, researchers sayCredit: Global Carbon Project Irvine, Calif. ¬ - An international team ...

NASA examines Hurricane Delta’s early morning structure

Credit: Credit: UWM/SSEC/CIMSS/William Straka III The NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite provided two nighttime views of Hurricane Delta as it moved ...

2020 Neukom Awards honors complex stories in complex times

Winners peer into imagined worlds with real consequencesCredit: Turnbull photo credit: Anju Manandhar; Chiang photo credit: Alan Berner. HANOVER, N.H. ...

Deep-seabed mining lastingly disrupts the seafloor food web

Especially the microbial part of the carbon cycle is affectedCredit: ROV-Team/GEOMAR The deep sea is far away and hard to ...

Zoologists uncover new example of rapid evolution – meet the Sulawesi Babblers

Credit: Trinity College Dublin. Zoologists from Trinity College Dublin, working in tropical Southeast Asia, have uncovered a modern-day example of ...

Climate projection research may help to battle ‘snail fever’ worldwide

Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, October 8, 2020 - Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change ...

Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power

Credit: Image courtesy of Jun Yin, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology While solar power is a leading form ...

NASA analyzes rainfall around Typhoon Chan-hom’s ragged eye

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL A NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations found heavy rainfall occurring throughout ...

NASA finds dry air sapping Tropical Storm Norbert’s strength

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that dry air is eroding Tropical Storm Norbert, located off ...

NASA analyzes Hurricane Delta’s water vapor concentration

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 7, it gathered water vapor data ...

Sea-level rise projections can improve with state-of-the-art model

New ice-sheet 'emulator' focuses on Antarctica, Rutgers research showsCredit: Ted Scambos/NSIDC Projections of potentially dramatic sea-level rise from ice-sheet melting ...

California’s August Complex largest fire in state’s history

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured another startling image of ...

Infrared NASA imagery finds Chan-hom organizing, consolidating

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed the large Tropical Storm Chan-hom as it tracked through the Northwestern ...

NASA catches development of Tropical Storm Norbert as Marie declines

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Eastern ...

Revising climate models with new aerosol field data