Tag: Earth Science

Credit: RUDN Univerisity According to a team of ecologists from RUDN University, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be used as ...

NASA finds hurricane delta packing heavy rainfall

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA's satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations found that Hurricane Delta was bringing ...

Hubble sees swirls of forming stars

Credit: European Space Agency At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured ...

NASA shows heaviest rainfall displaced in Typhoon Chan-hom

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Typhoon Chan-hom was still moving parallel to Japan's east coast as NASA's satellite rainfall product, that incorporates ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists reconstruct beetles from the Cretaceous

International research team gains new insights into the evolution of fossil beetlesCredit: D. Peris & R. Kundrata et al. / ...

Paleontologists identify new species of mosasaur

Ancient lizard's long, crocodile-like snout suggests it carved out a niche in a competitive marine ecosystem.Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura) A new ...

RUDN University soil scientists: Green suburbs can be more harmful than city centers

Credit: RUDN University A team of soil scientists from RUDN University confirmed that traditional approaches to urban soil pollution monitoring ...

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 ...

NOAA grant advances UToledo research into Lake Erie bacteria that destroys algal toxins

Project is aimed at developing new technologies to ensure clean drinking waterCredit: The University of Toledo Searching for new ways ...

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

October 6, 2020

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

October 6, 2020

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