Rocket engine exhaust pollution extends high into Earth’s atmosphere
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2022 – Reusable space technology has led to a rise in space transportation at a lower cost, ...
Tag: atmosphere
Micro- and nanoplastic from the atmosphere is polluting the ocean
According to estimates, by 2040 the level of plastic pollution could reach 80 million metric tons per year. Plastic particles ...
Amazon Rainforest Foliage Gases Affect the Earth’s Atmosphere
Plant-foliage-derived gases drive a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon over the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent study by researchers at ...
Argon found in air of ancient atmosphere
Researchers have discovered argon trapped in air-hydrate crystals in ice cores, which can be used to reconstruct past temperature changes ...
City trees and soil are sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than previously thought
They may not have lungs like we do, but the soil and trees are breathing in and out all of ...
Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic ‘tug-of-war’ lights up Jupiter’s upper atmosphere
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex ‘tug-of-war’ lights up aurorae in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, ...
New research links continents to key transitions in Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and climate
A new study led by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and Michigan Tech geologist Chad Deering advances the ...
Extreme exoplanet has a complex and exotic atmosphere
An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National ...
Exotic cocktail in the atmosphere of extreme exoplanet
Using high-resolution spectroscopy, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping the atmosphere of an exoplanet located 322 ...
NASA enters the solar atmosphere for the first time, bringing new discoveries
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s ...
NCAR’s new mini-satellite will measure howling winds high in Earth’s atmosphere
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has received $6.5 million in funding from NASA to launch a roughly shoebox-sized ...
Strong winds power electric fields in the upper atmosphere, NASA’s ICON finds
What happens on Earth doesn’t stay on Earth.Credit: Credits: NASA’s Conceptual Animation Lab What happens on Earth doesn’t stay on ...
How asteroid, comet strikes may have delayed evolution of the atmosphere
Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, a time known as the Archean eon, Earth’s weather could often be described ...
Early human activities impacted Earth’s atmosphere more than previously known
Reno, Nev. (Oct. 6, 2021) – Several years ago, while analyzing ice core samples from Antarctica’s James Ross Island, scientists ...
Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere teaches old oaks new tricks
Mature oak trees will increase their rate of photosynthesis by up to a third in response to the raised CO2 ...
Increased CO2 in the atmosphere makes dung beetles smaller
Climate change is a truth of the 21st century that is difficult to avoid. The burning of fossil fuels in ...
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Charging a green future: Latest advancement in lithium-ion batteries could make them ubiquitous
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Resolution time of COVID vaccine-related lymphadenopathy
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Long-hypothesized ‘next generation wonder material’ created for first time
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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What the new Jurassic Park movie gets wrong: Aerodynamic analysis causes a rethink of the biggest pterosaur.
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Venous thromboembolism: Less recurrencies with low-dose apixaban compared to discontinuation of the anticoagulant after negative D-dimer