Climate Science

Laboratory results question current knowledge on the degradation of dimethyl sulfide within the sulfur cycleCredit: Torsten Berndt, TROPOS Leipzig. An international research team was able to experimentally show in the laboratory a…

Credit: (Samanta et al. 2019, Science; Data courtesy of BBSO/GST and NASA/SDO) An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the…

Credit: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Philippine Sea, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of Tropical Depression Kalmaegi. NASA's Aqua satellite passed Kalmaegi on Nov. 15 at 0425 UTC (Nov.…

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of developing Tropical Storm Raymond in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. On Nov. 14, the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument that…

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Fengshen after its eye opened as Fengshen had strengthened from a tropical storm to a typhoon and developed an eye. On Nov. 15, the Moderate…

Image processing algorithms on satellite images show how sea ice drift affects freshwater flux in Arctic Ocean currents Climate change is accomplishing what centuries of exploration could not: opening the fabled Northwest Passage, a…

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Kalmaegi is still experiencing wind shear and those winds have continued to displace the strongest storms north of the cyclone's center. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and identified…

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Storm Fengshen's cold cloud top temperatures revealed that the storm was maintaining strength as a strong tropical storm. Forecasters expect Fengshen will continue strengthening…

Yale study projects that temperatures in some urban areas will rise up to 3 degrees C by midcentury due to the urban heat island effect Climate researchers predict that global temperatures will increase by as much as 2 degrees C by 2050…

Credit: The British Museum The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt -- the largest empire of its time -- collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital,…