Giant sea salt aerosols play major role in Hawai‘i’s coastal clouds, rain
Despite their tiny sizes, aerosols, such as sea salt, dust, and ash, play a giant role in shaping weather and ...
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WVU researchers team up with middle school students to study potential benefits of acid rain
West Virginia University biologists will tap local eighth graders for help on important research studying what happens when acid rain ...
By air, rain and land: How microbes return after a wildfire
Highlights: Ecological disturbances like wildfires disrupt microbial communities. Researchers studied microbial succession for a year in a field, following a ...
As Earth heats up, rain pours down
WASHINGTON — Earth’s land masses have a higher chance of becoming wetter than drier as temperatures rise. In a new ...
First BepiColombo flyby of Mercury finds electron rain triggers X-ray auroras
BepiColombo, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission, has revealed how electrons raining down ...
Mountains vulnerable to extreme rain from climate change
As the world warms, extreme weather events grow – and they also change. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...
Rain gardens could save salmon from toxic tire chemicals
Specially designed gardens could reduce the amount of a toxic chemical associated with tires entering our waterways by more than ...
Under the weather: Scientists should spend more time in the rain
Scientists need to get out of the lab and into the rain, say an interdisciplinary group of researchers led by ...
New look at climate data shows substantially wetter rain and snow days ahead
A key source of information underpinning the upcoming National Climate Assessment suggests that heavy precipitation days historically experienced once in ...
‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought
Menlo Park, Calif. — A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant ...
Kauai’s 2018 record-setting rain caused by a series of supercell thunderstorms
A record-setting rainstorm over Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i in April 2018 resulted in severe flash flooding and estimated damage of nearly $180 ...
Rain, floods and green infrastructure: Are cities mitigating the hazards equitably?
As cities grow, the area of impervious surfaces they cover grows. In cities across the US, roads, rooftops, parking lots, ...
Study shows how plants activate their immune system against pathogens in rain
While rain is essential for the survival of plants, it also contains bacteria and other pathogens which can cause them ...
UCF lands new project to study effect of rain on hypersonic travel
ORLANDO, Feb. 4, 2022 – University of Central Florida researchers are part of a new $1 million project funded by ...
Winds of change bring winter rain to eastern Arabia
The Arabian Peninsula is one of the most arid regions in the world, making it important to understand how climate ...
Cities boosted rain, sent storms to the suburbs during Europe’s deadly summer floods
When it comes to extreme weather, climate change usually gets all the attention. But according to a study from The ...
‘Mountain Rain or Snow’ seeks citizen scientists and winter storm reports
During the winter, a few degrees can make all the difference between digging your car out of a snowbank and ...
Scientists discover how forest fires influence rain cloud formation in the Amazon
A Brazilian study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment shows how wildfires and forest burning for agriculture influence rain cloud formation in ...
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Scientists discover rare 6-planet system that moves in strange synchrony
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AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds
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Ohio State receives $14 million to study optimal aspirin therapy in pregnancy
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The dangers of being a saber-toothed cat in Los Angeles 12,000 years ago
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Rise of microplastics discovered in placentas of Hawaiʻi mothers
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Catalysts of change: Young scientists spearhead breakthrough COVID-19 research in international collaboration