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Lightning's 'NOx-ious' Impact On Pollution, Climate
More than 1.2 billion
lightning flashes occur
around the world every year.
Each of those billion
lightning flashes produces a
puff of nitrogen oxide gas
... > full story
Abiotic Synthesis Of Methane: New Evidence Supports 19th-Century Idea On Formation Of Oil And Gas
Scientists in Washington,
D.C. are reporting
laboratory evidence
supporting the possibility
that some of Earth's oil and
... > full story
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues On Climate Change
Deep under the sea, a fossil
the size of a sand grain is
nestled among a billion of
its closest dead relatives.
Known as foraminifera, these
complex little shells of ca ... > full story
Nitrogen Loss Threatens Desert Plant Life, Study Shows
As the climate gets warmer,
arid soils lose nitrogen as
gas, reports a new study.
That could lead to deserts
with even less plant life
than they sustain today, say
... > full story
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Changing Arctic Affecting Air, Ocean, And Everything In Between
November 6, 2009 — Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years ago and at rates faster than ... > full story -
Can Biodiversity Persist In The Face Of Climate Change?
November 6, 2009 — Predictions made over the last decade about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity may be exaggerated, according to a paper published in the journal ... > full story -
Past Climate Of Northern Antarctic Peninsular Informs Global Warming Debate
November 6, 2009 — The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 ... > full story -
Paleoecologists Offer New Insight Into How Climate Change Will Affect Organisms
November 5, 2009 — New research examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms. The ... > full story -
Innovative Plan To Save Rainforest, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
November 5, 2009 — An innovative proposal by the Ecuadorian government to protect an untouched, oil rich region of Amazon rainforest is a precedent-setting and potentially economically viable approach, says a team of ... > full story -
Calm Before The Spawn: Climate Change And Coral Spawning
November 4, 2009 — Biologists have explained why corals spawn for just a few nights in some places but elsewhere string out their love life over many months. A new study shows that corals spawn when regional wind ... > full story -
Green Is Cool, But US Land Changes Generally Are Not
November 4, 2009 — Most land use changes occurring in the continental US result in raised regional surface temperatures, according to new research. The study found that almost any change that makes land cover less ... > full story -
North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting As Ocean Temperatures Warm
November 4, 2009 — About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing ... > full story -
Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be The Longest Taken From The Andes
November 4, 2009 — Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. This latest expedition focused on a ... > full story -
Report On US-China Collaboration On Carbon Capture And Sequestration
November 4, 2009 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society Center and with partner Monitor Group, today released the report, "A ... > full story
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