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High-Arctic Heat Tops 1,800-Year High, Says Study; Modern Spike Outmatches Naturally Driven 'Medieval Warm Period'
October 1, 2012 — Summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800 years, including during medieval times when parts of the northern hemisphere were as hot as, ... > full story -
Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago
September 24, 2012 — New University of Washington research suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and ... > full story -
Stratosphere Targets Deep Sea to Shape Climate: North Atlantic 'Achilles Heel' Lets Upper Atmosphere Affect the Abyss
September 23, 2012 — A new study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable "Achilles heel" in the North Atlantic and changing mile-deep ... > full story -
Climate Scientists Put Predictions to the Test
September 19, 2012 — A study has found that climate-prediction models are good at forecasting long-term climate patterns on a global scale but lose their edge when applied to time frames shorter than three decades and on ... > full story -
Carbon Dioxide from Water Pollution, as Well as Air Pollution, May Adversely Impact Oceans
September 19, 2012 — Carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the oceans as a result of water pollution by nutrients -- a major source of this greenhouse gas that gets little public attention -- is enhancing the unwanted ... > full story -
New Screening Method Identifies 1,200 Candidate Refrigerants to Combat Global Warming
September 19, 2012 — Researchers have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential" as well as other desirable performance and safety ... > full story -
How Life Arose on Earth: Researchers Brew Up Organics on Ice
September 18, 2012 — Would you like icy organics with that? Maybe not in your coffee, but researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the ... > full story -
MetOp-B Launches With NASA Goddard-Developed Instruments
September 17, 2012 — A new European meteorological satellite soared into space Sept. 17 with five environmental instruments aboard that were developed by the Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) Project at ... > full story -
Sounds of Space: New 'Chorus' Recording by Radiation Belt Storm Probes' EMFISIS Instrument
September 13, 2012 — Researchers from the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team at the University of Iowa have released a new recording of an intriguing and well-known ... > full story -
New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides 'Textbook' Excitement
September 12, 2012 — In the very early hours of Sept. 1 -- just under two days since the 4:05 a.m. EDT launch of NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes -- the team at the RBSP Mission Operations Center (MOC) controlling ... > full story
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