Atmospheric
- Global Warming Implicated In Ending The "Ice Age"
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A recalculation of the dates at which boulders were uncovered by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age has conclusively shown that the glacial retreat was due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as opposed to other typ ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2015 - 3:30pm
- Better Trap For Greenhouse Gases
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Emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels like coal, petroleum and natural gas tend to collect within Earth's atmosphere as "greenhouse gases" that are blamed for escalating global warming. So researchers around the globe are on a quest ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2015 - 11:00am
- Monsoon Mission: A Better Way To Predict Indian Weather?
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To better understand global weather patterns and increase scientific collaboration between the U.S. and India, researchers supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have completed a month-long cruise studying summer monsoon conditions in the Bay of ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2015 - 9:31pm
- Take That, Punxsutawney Phil: Science Says Spring Will Arrive 3 Weeks Earlier- Next Century, Anyway
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Scientists writing in Environmental Research Letters estimate that the onset of spring plant growth will shift by a median of three weeks over the next century- and global warming is to blame. The scholars from University of Wisconsin-Madison applied the ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2015 - 7:24pm
- Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation Climate Variability Due To Atmosphere
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A new challenges prevailing wisdom by identifying the atmosphere as the driver of a decades-long climate variation known as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) and offering new insight on the causes and predictability of natural climate variation ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2015 - 3:35pm
- Argonne National Laboratory Says Greenhouse Gas Emissions Similar For Crude Oil And Shale
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Argonne National Laboratory this week released a pair of studies on the efficiency of shale oil production excavation and find that shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to traditional crude oil production. The researc ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2015 - 1:21pm
- Greater Potential Carbon Sequestration In Soil
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A new study projects that carbon sequestration in European cropland could store between 9 and 38 megatons of carbon dioxide (MtCO2) per year in the soil, or as much as 7% of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in the European Union, at a ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2015 - 9:30am
- Record-Breaking Hurricane Patricia
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At 8 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center said that Hurricane Patricia had grown into a monster hurricane. In fact, it is the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite analyzed the tem ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2015 - 3:51pm
- Sunny Days Are Ahead, Except In China
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One of the great hypocrisies in climate negotiations a decade ago was exempting China from any agreement by giving them "developing nation" status. The rationale was that their emissions were not that high, according to Europe, who had remained ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 7:23am
- Annual Antarctic Ozone Hole Larger, Later In 2015
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The 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in recent years, accorrding to a new paper. On Oct. 2, 2015, the ozone hole expanded to its peak of 10.9 million square miles, an area larger than the continent of North America. Througho ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2015 - 7:12pm