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Air Quality Has Continued to Improve in Finnish Lapland
September 21, 2011 — Long-term observations indicate a positive trend in the quality of air in Lapland during the past 10-20 years. This favorable trend may be threatened by increased marine transport emissions from the ... > full story -
Study on Emissions from BP/Deepwater Horizon Controlled Burns Completed
September 20, 2011 — During the 2010 Gulf oil spill, an estimated one of every 20 barrels of spilled oil was deliberately burned to reduce surface oil slick size and minimize impacts of oil on sensitive shoreline ... > full story -
International Innovation Needed for Efficient Nitrogen Management
September 16, 2011 — The use of nitrogen in chemical fertilizers has had enormous benefits: feeding the ever-increasing world population. But there is a downside: the huge burden to the environment, public health and ... > full story -
New Technology for Recovering Valuable Minerals from Waste Rock
September 14, 2011 — Researchers report discovery of a completely new technology for more efficiently separating gold, silver, copper, and other valuable materials from rock and ore. The process uses nanoparticles to ... > full story -
Microbes Travel Through the Air: But How, and Where?
September 9, 2011 — Preliminary research on Fusarium, a group of fungi that includes devastating pathogens of plants and animals, shows how these microbes travel through the air. Researchers now believe that with ... > full story -
Switching from Coal to Natural Gas Would Do Little for Global Climate, Study Indicates
September 8, 2011 — Although the burning of natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study concludes that a greater reliance on natural gas would fail to significantly slow down climate change. Coal ... > full story -
Space Instrument Observes New Characteristics of Solar Flares; Findings May Lead to Improved Space Weather Forecasting
September 7, 2011 — NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than ... > full storyMore: -
First Global Portrait of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Flights
September 7, 2011 — A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases. The HIPPO project is enabling researchers to generate the first ... > full story -
CERES Continues Legacy of Cloud Study on NPP
September 7, 2011 — In October when NASA launches its next-generation Earth-observing satellite, NPP (NPOESS Preparatory Project), one of the passengers aboard will be the latest in a series of instruments that has ... > full story -
NASA Satellite Observes Unusually Hot July in the U.S. Great Plains
August 31, 2011 — Much of the United States sweated through an unusually humid heat wave during July, a month that brought record-breaking temperatures to many areas across the Great Plains. As temperatures soared, ... > full story
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