Atmospheric

Study Calls For Local CO2 Regulations

CO2 emissions not only have a global impact but a local one as well. As a result of so-called carbon dioxide 'domes,' the greenhouse gas is harming city dwellers' health much more than rural residents', says a new study in Environmental ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2010 - 10:43am

UV Exposure Stabilized In 1998, Satellite Data Show

New satellite data reveal that the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth's surface increased markedly from the period 1979 to 1998 and then stabilized, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.   The ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2010 - 11:09am

Controlled Burns Could Cut US Carbon Emissions

A new study in Environmental Science and Technology suggests that controlled burns release substantially less carbon dioxide emissions than wildfires of the same size and could be used to help the United States reduce its contribution to climate change. Dr ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2010 - 11:22am

The Perpetual Notion Of Perpetual Motion

Is there some way we can teach our children that there is no such thing as a free lunch?  Perhaps then they will not grow up to think that problems can always be solved- if only we throw enough crazy unscientific ideas at them. The laws of thermodynamics d ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 23 2010 - 1:55pm

Pollution From Asia Reaching Stratospheric Heights

As a result of the economic growth across much of Asia pollution from the region is being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season, according to a new study in Science. The new finding provides additional evidence of the global nature of air pol ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2010 - 4:52pm

Model Pinpoints Forests' Shift From Carbon Sinks To Generators

Scientists have fine-tuned computer models that can indicate when forest "carbon sinks" actually become net carbon generators instead. The effort, detailed in Global Change Biology, will help pinpoint the effectiveness of trees in offsetting carb ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2010 - 1:26pm

Fossilized Weather

Fossilized Weather If you want to know what the weather is doing you can do as the candlelight fisherman in the song did, and "open the pane and pop out the flame and see how the winds do blow".  Or you could look at the nearest weathervane.  Th ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 2 2010 - 11:53am

Low Solar Activity Won't Slow Climate Change, Study Says

Some solar physicists have suggested that prolonged low solar activity could offset the effects of anthropogenic global warming. But a new Grand Minimum of solar activity would decrease the rise of global mean temperature caused by human greenhouse gas emi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2010 - 2:18pm

Younger Dryas Posed Little Threat To Paleoindians

The Paleoindians who occupied North America throughout the Younger Dryas interval, which saw a rapid return to glacial conditions approximately 11,000 years ago, successfully dispersed across the continent's diverse habitats, according to a new study ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2010 - 10:31am

El Nino Puts Early 2010 Atop Satellite Temperature Record

New satellite data indicate that March 2010 was the third warmest month since December 1978, compared to seasonal norms, according to researchers at the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Powered by the most inte ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2010 - 11:40am