Tag: Climate Change

Spring storms don't serve as a trigger for steelhead migration, UC study findsCredit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative An endangered fish ...

Global warming threatens soil phosphorus, says a soil scientist from RUDN University

Credit: RUDN University A soil scientist from RUDN University found out that the resources of organic phosphorus in the soils ...

NASA satellite finds a wedge-shaped Tropical Storm Paulette

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Wind shear was affecting both Tropical Storm Paulette and Rene in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 11. ...

NASA satellite finds an elongated Tropical Storm Rene caused by wind shear

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed an elongated Tropical Storm Rene being battered by wind shear ...

Winds of change move western smoke into the Pacific

Credit: NASA Worldview NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds ...

First assessment of naturalized, invasive and potentially invasive plan

The research suggests that a range of invasive alien plants pose a series risk to the County - home to ...

Heated rivalries for pollinators among arctic plants

Insect pollination is as important to Arctic plants as it is to plants further south. When flowers abound, the plants ...

More than 90% of protected areas are disconnected

Credit: James Wheeler Ongoing land clearing for agriculture, mining and urbanisation is isolating and disconnecting Earth's protected natural areas from ...

Climate change recasts the insect communities of the Arctic

Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpää Through a unique research collaboration, researchers at the University of Helsinki have exposed major changes taking place ...

Dietary changes could produce big offsets to carbon emissions

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Eating less meat and dairy products in favor of plant-based proteins like those ...

Multiphase buffering by ammonia explains wide range of atmospheric aerosol acidity

Anthropogenic ammonia emissions and the water content matter more than dry particle composition for the acidity of atmospheric aerosols in ...

Infrared NASA imagery provides Paulette’s temperature palette

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

NASA finds Tropical Storm Rene less affected 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’s Terra highlights aerosols from western fires in danger zone

Credit: NASA Worldview The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just ...

Inexpensive, non-toxic nanofluid could be a game-changer for oil recovery

The nanofluid is made from commercially available sodium using household blenderCredit: University of Houston Researchers from the University of Houston ...

Researchers reveal a much richer picture of the past with new DNA recovery technique

Credit: Emil Karpinski, McMaster University Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, ...

NASA infrared imagery shows Tropical Storm Rene’s seesaw of strength

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Storm Rene weakened to a tropical depression late on Sept. 8 but regained tropical storm ...

NASA infrared imagery shows wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Paulette

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Paulette has run into wind shear that is pushing the bulk of clouds and showers away ...

University of Illinois awarded $4.5 million to develop commercial carbon credit tools

Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The University of Illinois has been awarded $4.5 million from the U.S. Department ...

Consequences of the 2018 summer drought