Atmospheric
- Tropical Cyclone 15S Forms In The Mozambique Channel
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NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone 15S as it formed in the Mozambique Channel on Feb. 18 at 10:53 a.m. EST and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard gathered infrared data on its cloud top temperatures and potentia ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 6:43pm
- Extreme Temperatures, Not Averages, Determine Distribution Of Insects
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The body temperature of cold-blooded (ectothermic) animals, including insects, is ultimately determined by ambient temperature, and that impacts the speed and efficiency of their vital biological processes also. But is it changes in average temperature or ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2014 - 6:00am
- Climate Change Doesn't Lead To More Deaths In Winter- But It Won't Reduce Them Either
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The upside to global warming might be milder winters. This would naturally lead to fewer deaths to due cold but an analysis of data from the past 60 years shows that is not likely. ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2014 - 11:05pm
- Optimized Livestock Diets May Reduce Emissions 23 Percent By 2030
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Methane has 23X the impact of carbon dioxide on warming and livestock produces methane- burping cows burp. ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2014 - 4:33pm
- Wind Turbines Change The Weather, So They May Make Hurricanes Weaker
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The criticism of wind farms is that they are expensive, don't product enough electricity to be meaningful and change the weather patterns even a thousand miles away. That may have a benefit; they may weaken hurricanes before landfall. Imagine a 2012 ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2014 - 5:30am
- The Microbial Soil Process That Controls Atmospheric Hydrogen
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There are many enduring mysteries regarding the composition of the Earth's atmosphere but one may be a little closer to being solved. Researchers have discovered a microbial soil process that helps ensure that the explosive gas hydrogen remains at tr ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2014 - 12:07pm
- Stop Linking Storms To Climate Change
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There was a time when advocates knew that linking weather events to climate change was a bad idea; it left the science open to criticism if Al Gore was giving a talk on global warming during a blizzard. Yet since 2012, when SuperStorm Sandy was linked to ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2014 - 2:18pm
- Ancient Indonesian Climate Change Linked To Nature
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A 60,000-year record of rainfall in central Indonesia used sediments from a remote lake reveals important new details about the climate history of a region that wields a substantial influence on the global climate as a whole. The Indonesian archipelago si ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2014 - 4:58pm
- Computer Model Quantifies Health Costs Of Air Pollution From Agriculture
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Ammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated, according to a numerical model by Harvard University researchers Fabien Paulot and Daniel Jacob, who estimated chemical reactions in the atmosphere to better ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2014 - 1:01am
- Not Just Rainfall: Evaporative Drying May Spread To A Third Of Earth
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Increasing heat is estimated to extend dry conditions to far more farmland and cities by the end of the century, according to a new paper. Much of the concern about future drought under a global warming scenario has focused on rainfall projections but hig ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 6:43pm
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