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Tag: Climate Science
Investing in climate change is good business
An internationally respected group of scientists is calling on world leaders to urgently accelerate efforts to tackle climate change. Almost every aspect of the environment and ecology is changing in response to global warming. Some of these changes will be…
Climate protection and clean air: An integrated approach
Recommendations for boosting Paris Agreement and SDGs
Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze. The seas began to ice over at the Earth’s poles, and the new range of temperatures around the planet set the stage for a boom…
Rethinking scenario logic for climate policy
Current scenarios used to inform climate policy have a weakness in that they typically focus on reaching specific climate goals in 2100 – an approach which may encourage risky pathways that could have long-term negative effects. A new IIASA-led study…
NASA-NOAA satellite catches Hurricane Kiko at night
Hurricane Kiko continued to track west through the Eastern Pacific Ocean when NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and provided a view of the storm. Satellite imagery revealed an elongated shape, which indicated wind shear was still affecting Kiko. The…
NASA satellite provides a view of a large hurricane Humberto
NASA’s Terra Satellite provided a visible image of Hurricane Humberto when it was off the coast of the Carolinas and slowly moving north. The satellite image revealed that Humberto is a very large storm. On Sept. 16, the Moderate Imaging…
NASA’s Terra Satellite sees the birth of Tropical Storm Imelda
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the western Gulf of Mexico during the early afternoon of Sept. 17 and captured a visible image of the newly formed Tropical Depression 11. The eleventh tropical depression developed during the late morning of Sept.…
Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic
Second-lowest September minimum since observations began
Study offers verdict for China’s efforts on coal emissions
Researchers from China, France and the USA have evaluated China’s success in stemming emissions from its coal-fired power plants (CPPs). CPPs are one of the main contributors to air pollution in China, and their proliferation over the last 20 years…
Satellite study of Amazon rainforest land cover gives insight into 2019 fires
LAWRENCE — Throughout August and early September 2019, media around the world have reported on the extensive forest fires ravaging Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Much of the concern stems from the Amazon’s significance to regulating the world’s climate. According to the…
Since cooling demand is primarily driven by the sun, could it also be powered by the sun?
The study is a collaborative effort of an international team of solar energy experts from Aalto University of Finland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SMART (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology). It analyses the intersection of two dominant trends in…
Clemson physicists lead rocket missions to explore Earth’s atmosphere
Clemson University physicists will conduct a pair of three-year rocket missions funded by NASA Helio
A precise chemical fingerprint of the Amazon
Drone-based monitoring system reveals important information on the health of the Amazon
Do animals control earth’s oxygen level?
No more than 540 million years ago there was a huge boom in the diversity of animals on Earth. The first larger animals evolved in what is today known as the Cambrian explosion. In the time that followed, the animals…
The danger of heat and cold across Australia
Cold temperatures are not nearly as deadly as heat, with around 2% of all deaths in Australia relate
To reduce pollution, policymakers should broaden focus beyond smokestacks
Emissions from air pollutants are associated with premature mortality. Between 2008 and 2014, air pollution health damage from fine particulate matter exposure fell by 20 percent in the United States. There are four sectors in the U.S. economy that together…
Climate change could bring short-term gain, long-term pain for loggerhead turtles
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — An overwhelming scientific consensus affirms that for thousands of species across the globe, climate change is an immediate and existential threat. For the loggerhead turtle, whose vast range extends from the chilly shores of Newfoundland to the…
NASA finds a few strong storms left in Fernand’s remnants over Northeastern Mexico
Tropical Storm Fernand made landfall in northeastern Mexico and began dissipating. However, infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite shows that there are still fragmented strong storms left in the tropical cyclone’s remnants. Those storms have the potential to generate heavy…
NASA measures Dorian’s heavy rainfall from Bahamas to Carolinas
Hurricane Dorian continues to generate tremendous amounts of rainfall, and has left over three feet of rain in some areas of the Bahamas and is now lashing the Carolinas. NASA’s IMERG product provided a look at those rainfall totals. By…
NASA-NOAA satellite finds wind shear pushing on Tropical Storm Gabrielle
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the eastern Atlantic Ocean and infrared data revealed that the storm was being adversely affected by wind shear, pushing its strongest storms northeast of its center. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite used infrared light to…
Satellite finds a ‘hook’ of heavy rainfall in Hurricane Juliette
From its vantage point in orbit around the Earth, when the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, it gathered data on rainfall rates occurring in Hurricane Juliette. The areas of strongest rainfall…
Tiny airborne particles from wildfires have climate change implications
Scientists with Arizona State University connections are important contributors to a newly published
Tropical storm Faxai gets a name and NASA gets an infrared picture
Tropical Storm 14W has been moving through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean for several days and has now been renamed Faxai. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the newly renamed storm and took the temperature of Faxai’s clouds and storms. NASA’s Terra…
NASA estimates Hurricane Dorian’s massive Bahama rainfall totals
Hurricane Dorian dropped excessive rainfall on the Bahamas and NASA calculated the rainfall the storm generated. “By Wednesday morning, September 4, the rain accumulation from Hurricane Dorian exceeded 36 inches in an area that included parts of Grand Bahama Island…
Mathematical model provides new support for environmental taxes
Taxes that incentivize environmentally friendly practices could promote green development
Scientists to use advances in 3D imaging to predict effects of rising CO2 levels on crops
ST. LOUIS, MO, September 4, 2019 – Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are higher than at any point in the past 800,000 years and in 2017, the global average amount of CO2 hit a new record: 405 parts per million, according…
It is best not to fly to conferences
Several times a year, researchers from all over the world travel long distances in order to share their latest findings and establish contacts at conferences. Dr. Sebastian Jäckle from the Department of Political Science at the University of Freiburg advocates…
GPM finds a band of heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Gabrielle
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite provided information about the rate in which rain was falling within the Eastern Atlantic Ocean’s latest tropical storm, Gabrielle. Tropical Depression 8 formed around 5 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 3.…
NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Fernand’s strength before landfall
NASA’s Aqua satellite provided forecasters at the National Hurricane Center with infrared data and cloud top temperature information for Tropical Storm Fernand as it was making landfall in northeastern Mexico. Those temperatures indicated Fernand’s rainmaking capabilities. The infrared data also…
NASA catches Hurricane Juliette over Mexico’s Socorro Island
Although Hurricane Juliette is no longer a major hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed there are still powerful thunderstorms around its center and captured an image of the storm over Socorro Island, Mexico. Aqua provided forecasters…
Corals take control of nitrogen recycling
Corals are shown to recycle their own waste ammonium using a surprising source of glucose–a finding that reveals more about the relationship between corals and their symbiotic algae. Symbiosis between corals and algae provides the backbone for building coral reefs,…
NASA infrared data reveals rainmaking potential in tropical depression 7
Another Atlantic Ocean basin depression formed while Hurricane Dorian is still wreaking havoc on the Bahamas and affecting the southeastern U.S. Infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite shows that Tropical Depression 7 in the western Gulf of Mexico has developed…
NASA’s IMERG estimates hurricane Dorian’s rain
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 3, Hurricane Dorian had been stationary over the island of Grand Bahama for 18 hours, most of the time as a category 5 hurricane. Storm-total rain accumulation over parts of Grand Bahama and…
GPM analyzes tropical depression Kajiki’s rainfall over Vietnam and Laos
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite provided a look at rainfall rates in Tropical Depression Kajiki after it made a quick landfall in Vietnam. On Sept. 2, Kajiki formed as Tropical Depression 16W in the South China…
Major Hurricane Juliette’s emerging eye spotted in NASA satellite imagery
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and provided an image of Hurricane Juliette as its eye began to emerge. Juliette has grown into a major hurricane, about 450 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California,…
NASA finds tropical storm 14W strengthening
Tropical Storm 14W formed as a depression a couple of days ago in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and strengthened into a tropical storm on Sept. 2. Infrared data from NASA’s Aqua satellite shows some powerful thunderstorms fueling further intensification. On…
NASA infrared eye analyzes typhoon Lingling
The storm that became Typhoon Lingling strengthened very quickly in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and infrared imagery from NASA revealed the powerful thunderstorms fueling that intensification. Lingling formed on Sept. 2 as Tropical Depression 15W and strengthened quickly into a…
Impact of climate change on global banana yields revealed
Climate change could negatively impact banana cultivation in some of the world’s most important producing and exporting countries, a study has revealed. Bananas are recognised as the most important fruit crop – providing food, nutrition and income for millions in…
New feedback phenomenon found to drive increasing drought and aridity
New study shows an increasingly high probability of more frequent, more extreme concurrent soil drou
NASA satellites on-hand as Dorian becomes a category 3 hurricane
As Hurricane Dorian was upgraded to a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, NASA’s fleet of satellites were gathering data during the day to assist weather forecasters and scientists. At 2:00 pm EDT the National Hurricane Center…
USF-led team deciphers sea level rise from the last time Earth’s CO2 set record highs
TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 30, 2019) – An international team of scientists have discovered evidence in the geological formations in a coastal cave showing that more than three million years ago – a time in which the Earth was two to…
Deep snow cover in the Arctic region intensifies heat waves in Eurasia
Persistent abnormally hot weather can cause negative impacts on human health, agriculture, and natural environments. A heat wave — a spell of hot days with the mercury rising much higher than the average temperature — has been reported more frequently…
Amazon deforestation has a significant impact on the local climate in Brazil
The loss of forest cover in the Amazon has a significant impact on the local climate in Brazil, according to a new study. The UN Environment Programme has said warned that the Amazon wildfires threaten “…this precious natural resource…” and…
Hurricane Dorian marching slowly across Atlantic
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami reports that an Air Force plane is finding Dorian a “little stronger” as of the 8:00am EDT advisory put out today, Aug. 30, 2019. Data from an Air Force Reserve reconnaissance aircraft indicate that…
Scientists discover evidence for past high-level sea rise
Mallorcan cave yields 4-million-year-old geologic evidence providing new insights into magnitude glo
Bacteria feeding on Arctic algae blooms can seed clouds
WASHINGTON – New research finds Arctic Ocean currents and storms are moving bacteria from ocean algae blooms into the atmosphere where the particles help clouds form. These particles, which are biological in origin, can affect weather patterns throughout the world,…
Southern Ocean circulation patterns that keep the lid on stored carbon are more complex than previou
Reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean
NASA finds wind shear affecting Tropical Depression Erin
Visible and infrared imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite revealed that strong wind shear was adversely affecting Tropical Depression Erin, located about 200 miles off the Carolina coast. On Aug. 27, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s…
UCI-led study: Plankton are more resilient to nutrient stress than previously thought
Interdisciplinary team produces first high-resolution map of ocean surface phosphate