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Air Pollution Responsible for More Than 2 Million Deaths Worldwide Each Year, Experts Estimate
July 12, 2013 — More than two million deaths occur globally each year as a direct result of human-caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found. In addition, while it has been suggested that a changing climate ... > full story -
Smoke from Canadian Wildfires Observed in Europe
July 12, 2013 — This summer, Canada is experiencing unusually extensive wildfires. This week alone, 341 new forest fires have consumed a total area of 616,000 hectares. The smoke clouds produced by the fires in ... > full story -
Earth's Core Affects Length of Day
July 11, 2013 — Researchers have found that variations in the length of day over periods of between one and 10 years are caused by processes in the Earth's ... > full story -
Trees Use Water More Efficiently as Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises
July 10, 2013 — Though studies have long predicted that more efficient forest water use would result from increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, biologists, using data collected in the northeastern ... > full story -
How Early Earth Kept Warm Enough to Support Life
July 9, 2013 — Solving the "faint young sun paradox" -- explaining how early Earth was warm and habitable for life beginning more than three billion years ago even though the sun was 20 percent dimmer than today -- ... > full story -
Improved Interpretation of Volcanic Traces in Ice
July 8, 2013 — How severely have volcanoes contaminated the atmosphere with sulfur particles in past millennia? To answer this question, scientists use ice cores, among others, as climate archives. Atmospheric ... > full story -
Cluster Spacecraft Detects Elusive Space Wind
July 2, 2013 — A new study provides the first conclusive proof of the existence of a space wind first proposed theoretically over 20 years ago. By analysing data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster ... > full story -
Climate Tug of War Disrupting Australian Atmospheric Circulation Patterns
June 26, 2013 — Further evidence of climate change shifting atmospheric circulation in the southern Australian-New Zealand region has been identified in a new ... > full story -
Jet Stream Changes Cause Climatically Exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
June 17, 2013 — Scientists have shown that unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet in summer ... > full story -
'Self-Cleaning' Pollution-Control Technology Could Do More Harm Than Good, Study Suggests
June 13, 2013 — Environmental scientists shows that air-pollution-removal technology used in "self-cleaning" paints and building surfaces may actually cause more problems than they solve. The study finds that ... > full story
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