Tag: Earth Science

Rutgers-led research highlights lesser-known options with fewer trade-offsCredit: Pamela McElwee/Rutgers University-New Brunswick How can some of world's biggest problems - ...

NASA finds powerful storm’s around Tropical Storm Cristina’s center

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL A low-pressure area strengthened quickly and became Tropical Storm Cristina in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and infrared imagery ...

Edouard now post-tropical in NASA-NOAA satellite imagery

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

Cooling mechanism increases solar energy harvesting for self-powered outdoor sensors

With the use of a wavelength-selective emitter to create constant radiative cooling, thermoelectric devices can generate voltage continuouslyCredit: Satoshi Ishii ...

New process enables lithium mining in Germany

Scientists at KIT achieve patent protection for minimally invasive technology to mine lithium in geothermal plantsCredit: Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe Whether ...

1.5 billion people will depend on water from mountains

Credit: D. Viviroli Global water consumption has increased almost fourfold in the past 100 years, and many regions can only ...

A chemical cocktail of air pollution in Beijing, China during COVID-19 outbreak

Credit: Hao Li The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads rapidly around the world, and has limited people's outdoor activities substantially. ...

NASA finds wind shear battering tropical storm Edouard

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The latest tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean formed one day ago and was already being battered ...

Story tips: Predicting fire risk, solid state stability check and images in a flash

Credit: Uvinduni Premadasa/ORNL, US Dept. of Energy Climate - Predicting fire risk Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a ...

Light a critical factor in limiting carbon uptake, even in the north

Columbia engineers demonstrate that, as temperatures rise, northern high latitude regions will not become more conducive to vegetation growth--light is ...

Long-term consequences of river damming in the Panama Canal

Credit: Ian Cooke/Cooked Illustrations Humans have manipulated and managed rivers with dams for millennia. The number of river dam projects ...

The latest findings on the MOSAiC floe

July 5, 2020

Scientific study describes the nursery of sea ice and provides the basis for future assessments of research dataCredit: Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut ...

Arctic plants may not provide predicted carbon sequestration potential

July 2, 2020

Credit: University of Stirling The environmental benefits of taller, shrubbier tundra plants in the Arctic may be overstated, according to ...

Typhoon changed earthquake patterns