Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Delphine Farmer, CSU Smoke from the many wildfires burning in the West have made air quality hazardous for millions ...

NASA-NOAA satellite finds Hurricane Delta rapidly intensifying

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 ...

Multi-institutional team extracts more energy from sunlight with advanced solar panels

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers working to maximize solar panel efficiency said layering advanced materials ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight

Lessons from conjunction observations with ISS detectors and the Arase satelliteCredit: Ryuho Kataoka et al., 2020 Scientists have made significant ...

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 ...

Tweaks to land-based conservation efforts would pay huge freshwater ecosystem dividends

Credit: Rede Amazo?nia Sustanta?vel (6) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Conservation projects aimed at protecting land-dwelling species could net major gains in ...

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 ...

Ice Age manatees may have called Texas home

Credit: Robert Bonde / U.S. Geological Survey. Manatees don't live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are ...

Mud-slurping chinless ancestors had all the moves

Credit: Hugo Salais (Metazoa Studio) A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, has revealed our most ancient ...

NASA finds Hurricane Marie rapidly intensifying

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA infrared imagery revealed that Hurricane Marie is rapidly growing stronger and more powerful. Infrared imagery revealed that ...

Noble metal clusters can enhance performance of catalysts and save resources

Lower-cost production thanks to optimized distribution of atoms - publication in Nature CatalysisCredit: Florian Maurer, KIT Billions of noble metal ...

Researchers use satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California’s central valley