Atmospheric Science

Temperature records show past volcanic activity, current climate warming trendsCredit: Peter Swart, Ph.D., UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI--Scientists used a 600-year-old marine sponge to reconstruct…

Microbes in meltwater stream sediment may help boost island's contribution to sea-level riseCredit: Sasha Leidman Bacteria are likely triggering greater melting on the Greenland ice sheet, possibly increasing the island's…

Now there are fiveCredit: Rio the Photographer Happy end to a challenging year: Two new northern white rhino embryos created at Christmas - now there are five The international consortium of scientists and conservationists that…

Credit: ETH Zurich / Ruth Signorell Aerosols are suspensions of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in a gas. Clouds, for example, are aerosols because they consist of water droplets dispersed in the air. Such droplets are…

Since 2013, China has implemented the strictest ever air pollution control policies, which resulted in substantial reductions in aerosol concentrations. However, extreme and persistent haze events frequently occur during wintertime in…

Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpaa Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate may also shape more complex biological systems like food webs. Now a research group from the University of Helsinki…

Credit: Alexander Forryan New research has unlocked the mystery of how the Galápagos Islands, a rocky, volcanic outcrop, with only modest rainfall and vegetation, is able to sustain its unique wildlife habitats. The…

Wartime-level funding for a fleet of CO2 scrubbers could slow warming, but stopping climate change still requires deep cuts in emissionsCredit: Credit: acilo/iStock There is a growing consensus among scientists as well as national…

Unlocking the potentials of EV batteries with roof-top PVs for urban decarbonization Cities have become the focus of global climate mitigation efforts because as they are responsible for 60-70% of energy-related CO2 emissions. As the world…

A once-in-1000-year warming event has been already altered to occur once per 15 years because of past human activitiesCredit: NIES August 2020 set new record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the northwestern Pacific…

Researchers enabled a trio of self-driving robots to locate, follow, and sample a layer of microbes as they drifted in an open-ocean eddy Researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), and Woods Hole Oceanographic…

Credit: Victor O. Leshyk/Northern Arizona University Earth's ability to absorb nearly a third of human-caused carbon emissions through plants could be halved within the next two decades at the current rate of warming, according to a…

Credit: University of Birmingham The first COVID-19 lockdowns led to significant changes in urban air pollution levels around the world, but the changes were smaller than expected - a new study reveals. After developing new corrections…

Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, January 13, 2021 - The paper "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Environmental Sound Classification," has won the 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics…

A recent Point of Reference article, "The meat of the matter: Environmental dissemination of beef cattle agrochemicals," published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, points at synthetic chemical cocktails being emitted from cattle…

Credit: York University Postdoctoral Fellow Alessandro Filazzola TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2021 - Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may permanently lose ice cover this century, 179 of them in the next decade, at…

New study unravels long-standing climate mystery and provides insight into how our planet may change in the future Scientists claim to have found the 'missing link' in the process that leads to an ice age on Earth. Melting icebergs in…

Scientists set a record for the highest conversion rate of carbon dioxide at low temperatures with copper-modified indium oxide, signifying sustainable e-fuelCredit: Waseda University With ever-worsening climate change, there…

Global team of scientists, including UCLA's Daniel Blumstein, points to environmental, population and political challenges Without immediate and drastic intervention, humans face a "ghastly future" -- including declining health, climate…

Christian A. Davies, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the 2021 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Technology Innovation from TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas)Credit: TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine,…