Tag: Climate Change

Credit: David A. Paz-García Rising ocean temperatures have devastated coral reefs all over the world, but a recent study in ...

NASA sees compact Douglas strengthening to a major hurricane

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Although a compact storm, hurricane Douglas in the Eastern Pacific is mighty, as it has become the ...

Lightning strikes more than 100 million times per year in the tropics

Credit: Credit: Evan Gora Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama have published dramatic maps showing the ...

Shifts seen in breeding times and duration for 73 boreal bird species over 40 years

UMass Amherst ecologist, part of Finnish team, used 820,000 nesting recordsCredit: Finnish Museum of Natural History/Aleksi Lehikoinen AMHERST, Mass. - ...

USDA funds study of dairy cattle’s environmental footprint

Credit: Jason Koski, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Dairy farmers have improved the efficiency and reduced the environmental impacts of ...

2,000 years of storms in the Caribbean

Geoscientists from Goethe University create sedimentary archive with annual resolutionCredit: (Photo: Gischler) FRANKFURT. The hurricanes in the Caribbean became more ...

Mitigation of greenhouse gases in dairy cattle through genetic selection

Study targets reducing methane production by 20 percent in 10 years according to research in the Journal of Dairy Science®Credit: ...

Discovery of first active seep in Antarctica provides new understanding of methane cycle

Credit: Andrew Thurber Oregon State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - The discovery of the first active methane seep in Antarctica is ...

NASA sees record-breaking new Tropical Storm Gonzalo strengthening

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson The seventh named tropical cyclone of the North Atlantic Ocean has formed, and like some ...

NASA infrared confirms Douglas still a tropical storm

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared data from NASA's Terra satellite showed that dry air around Tropical Storm Douglas has been inhibiting ...

Climate change is impacting the spread of invasive animal species

The Asian shore crab as an example of invasive species successfully spreading to the North Sea and BalticCredit: Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Insitut ...

Climate shift, forest loss and fires — Scientists explain how Amazon forest is trapped in a vicious circle

Credit: Xiyan Xu Amazonia experiences seasonal fires each year. More than 90% of the fires are distributed across the southern ...

International analysis narrows range of climate’s sensitivity to CO2

Four years of research confidently narrows range of 1.5°C-4.5°C down to 2.3°C-3.9°CCredit: NOAA (Unsplash) The most advanced and comprehensive analysis ...

O Christmas Tree: DNA shows WA’s largest parasitic plant adapts to climate

Credit: Curtin University A closer look at DNA from south-western Australia's native Nuytsia floribunda, known as the WA Christmas Tree, ...

Tropical Storm Douglas organizing in NASA infrared imagery

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Depression 8E developed on July 20 and quickly organized into a tropical storm. Infrared NASA satellite ...

NASA finds wind shear and cooler waters winding down Tropical Depression 7E

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

How does ridesourcing substitute for public transit network?

New research by SMART finds that one third of ridesourcing substitutes public transitCredit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Study ...

Aerosols have an impact on the solar power yield in Europe

A joint research project of KIT, the German Weather Service, and meteocontrol investigates how tiny suspended particles in the air ...

Making comprehensive water resources modeling more accessible

Credit: IIASA The growing global population and continued economic development will likely require a significant increase in water demand, especially ...

NASA analyzes new eastern Pacific Ocean Tropical Depression 7E