Tag: Earth Science

Credit: We acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Regional Climate, and the Working Group on Coupled Modelling. ...

NASA rainfall imagery reveals Norbert regains tropical storm status

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Norbert has been meandering around in the Eastern Pacific Ocean for several days as a tropical depression. ...

Human activity has made Murray estuary more vulnerable to drought

Historic metallic 'fingerprints' allow scientists to reconstruct estuary formationCredit: University of Sydney Human impacts on the Lower Lakes of the ...

Unexpectedly large number of trees populate the Western Sahara and the Sahel

Credit: Laurent Kergoat - GET The number of trees inhabiting the Western Sahara, the Sahel and the Sudanian zone has ...

Clean and clear: How being more transparent over resources helps cut carbon emissions

Credit: University of Sussex Countries that sign up to improved financial transparency over oil, gas, and mining revenues benefit from ...

Warm central equatorial pacific sea surface temperatures and anthropogenic warming boosted the 2019 severe drought in East China

Credit: Jufang Hu Drought usually originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time and is identified ...

Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

MIT engineers have made their initial design more practical, efficient, and scalable.Credit: Image: Alina LaPotin Researchers at MIT and elsewhere ...

NTU scientists report plastic could be ‘eco-friendlier’ than paper &cotton in Singapore

Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have modelled the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of using different ...

American Pikas show resiliency in the face of global warming

Credit: Andrew Smith, Arizona State University The American pika is a charismatic, diminutive relative of rabbits that some researchers say ...

NASA sees Tropical Storm Nangka soaking Hainan Island

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations, NASA estimated Nangka's rainfall ...

NASA animation tracks the end of Tropical Storm Delta

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

Ed Fry selected as The Oceanography Society’s 2020 Jerlov Award recipient

For significant advances in knowledge of how light interacts with the oceanCredit: Texas A&M University Dr. Edward S. Fry, distinguished ...

Crayfish ‘trapping’ fails to control invasive species

Credit: Eleri Pritchard Despite being championed by a host of celebrity chefs, crayfish 'trapping' is not helping to control invasive ...

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