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250 Years of Global Warming: Berkeley Earth Releases New Analysis
July 30, 2012 According to a new Berkeley Earth study released July 29, the average temperature of Earth's land has risen by 1.5 °C over the past 250 years. The good match between the new temperature record ... > full story -
Cloud Seeds and Ozone Holes
July 30, 2012 New findings on the growth of ice clusters in polar stratospheric clouds could help clarify the process of ozone depletion in the ... > full story -
Climate Change Linked to Ozone Loss: May Result in More Skin Cancer
July 26, 2012 Scientists are warning that a newly-discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the US could allow more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach Earth's ... > full story -
Methane Measurements at Low Level Flight: Detection of the Greenhouse Gas Methane in the Arctic
July 26, 2012 First time measurements of large-scale methane emissions have been taken from the extensive Arctic permafrost ... > full story -
Reducing Traffic at 2008 Olympics Yielded Large Cut in CO2
July 24, 2012 China's efforts to reduce pollution for the Beijing Olympics has enabled scientists to quantify traffic impacts on carbon dioxide emissions. New research shows Beijing's lighter traffic achieved a ... > full story -
Rise in Temperatures and CO2 Follow Each Other Closely in Climate Change
July 23, 2012 The greatest climate change the world has seen in the last 100,000 years was the transition from the ice age to the warm interglacial period. New research indicates that, contrary to previous ... > full story -
Traveling Through a Volcano: How Pre-Eruption Collisions Affect What Exits a Volcano
July 23, 2012 Scientists widely believe that volcanic particle size is determined by the initial fragmentation process, when bubbly magma deep in the volcano changes into gas-particle flows. But new research ... > full story -
The Electric Atmosphere: Plasma Is Next NASA Science Target
July 17, 2012 Two giant donuts of this plasma surround Earth, trapped within a region known as the Van Allen Radiation Belts. The belts lie close to Earth, sandwiched between satellites in geostationary orbit ... > full story -
Researchers Develop Technique to Help Pollution Forecasters See Past Clouds
July 10, 2012 Scientists have created a technique to help satellites "see" through the clouds and better estimate the concentration of pollutants, such as ... > full story -
Sounds of Northern Lights Are Born Close to Ground
July 9, 2012 For the first time, researchers have located where the sounds associated with the northern lights are created. The auroral sounds that have been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers are ... > full story
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