Tag: Earth Science

October 12, 2020

Credit: Victor Leshyk, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society As climate warming stokes longer fire seasons and more severe fires ...

Professor Simon Pollard awarded OBE for services to the environment

Cranfield University Professor awarded OBE for services to environmental risk managementCredit: Cranfield University Professor Simon Pollard DSc FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of ...

Study shows how climate impacts food webs, poses socioeconomic threat in Eastern Africa

Climate impacts on Lake Tanganyika are a bellwether for global change worldwide, team saysCredit: Michael McGlue, University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, ...

Climate patterns linked in Amazon, North and South America, study shows

A tree-ring chronology developed by U of A researchers established a connection between precipitation in the Amazon and the AmericasCredit: ...

RUDN University ecologists developed new models to identify environmental pollution sources

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