Tag: Climate Change

Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite revealed that Hurricane Delta has been rapidly growing stronger and more ...

Who is driving whom? Climate and carbon cycle in perpetual interaction

Bremen climate scientists disclose changing feedback mechanisms between climate and global carbon cycle over the last 35 million yearsCredit: William ...

Birds risk starvation trying to “keep pace” with climate change

30-year data set shows that birds are breeding earlier, at a costCredit: David Winkler Surviving on a warming planet can ...

Evolution in action: New Plant species in the Swiss Alps

Credit: UZH, Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi A new plant species named Cardamine insueta appeared in the region of Urnerboden in the Swiss ...

NASA infrared imagery reveals wind shear displacing Marie’s strongest storms

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Marie that revealed the effects of outside winds ...

NASA imagery reveals Tropical Storm Gamma battered by wind shear

Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of ...

NASA imagery reveals Tropical Storm Chan-hom’s skewed structure

Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of ...

NASA gages Tropical Storm Delta’s strength in infrared

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm Delta in infrared imagery as it moved through the Caribbean ...

Scientist maps CO2 emissions for entire US to improve environmental policymaking

Map features greenhouse gas emissions across the entire US landscape at high space- and time-resolution with details on economic sector, ...

Carbon storage from the lab

Credit: Photo: Melanie Heck Peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the earth's ...

Two’s a crowd: Nuclear and renewables don’t mix

Only the latter can deliver truly low carbon energy, says new studyCredit: University of Sussex If countries want to lower ...

Wildlife conservation undermines the rights of indigenous people in India

A new EJAtlas map launched by the ICTA-UAB denounces that the current model puts growth and gains before human lives ...

Future climate changes in nature reserves

Bayreuth research: Tropical nature reserves to be particularly affectedCredit: Photo: Samuel Hoffmann. The Earth's nature reserves are the basis for ...

NASA finds heavy rainfall ringing major Hurricane Maria’s eye

Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Imagine being able to look down at a storm from orbit in space, and provide data that lets ...

Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact 31 million people globally

Study is first to assess the impact of climate change on the global population of river deltasCredit: Photo by Eduardo ...

Fuelling the energy revolution

A chemist at Paderborn University is researching green hydrogen for sustainable transport - dovetailing fundamental research and application technologiesCredit: Paderborn ...

Bright light bars big-eyed birds from human-altered landscapes

Credit: Ian Ausprey/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures ...

USask water scientist honored with prestigious international lifetime achievement award

Credit: Steve Anderson SASKATOON - University of Saskatchewan (USask) hydrologist Jay Famiglietti has been awarded the 2020 Hydrologic Sciences Award ...

Scientists repeat century-old study to reveal evidence of evolutionary rescue in the wild

Credit: Katharine Clayton, University of Plymouth A tiny flatworm found commonly on the coasts of western Europe and North America ...

NASA finds Hurricane Marie rapidly intensifying