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Federal Polar Bear Research Critically Flawed, Forecasting Expert Asserts
Research done by the US
Department of the Interior
to determine if global
warming threatens the polar
bear population is so flawed
... > full story
Scientists Endure Arctic For Last Campaign Prior To CryoSat-2 Launch
An international group of
scientists has swapped their
comfortable offices for one
of the most inhospitable
environments on the planet
... > full story
Climate Models Overheat Antarctica, New Study Finds
Computer analyses of global
climate have consistently
overstated warming in
Antarctica, new research
concludes. The study can
help scientists improve
... > full story
Amazon Under Threat From Cleaner Air
The Amazon rainforest, so
crucial to the Earth's
climate system, is coming
under threat from cleaner
air say prominent climate
scientists. The new study
identifies a link between
... > full story
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Cyclone Nargis And Myanmar Floods Seen From Space
May 8, 2008 — Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on May 1, 2008. The cyclone hit the coastal region and ripped through the heart of Myanmar on Saturday, ... > full story -
Unmanned Aircraft To Study Southern California Smog And Its Consequences
May 8, 2008 — Using sophisticated unmanned aircraft, research scientists hope to assess Southern California's potential for climate change and better understand the sources of air ... > full story -
Farmland Dust Cloud From Ukraine Impact Air Quality As Far As Germany
May 8, 2008 — Fallow agricultural land and steppe-formation processes are evidently capable of having a much greater effect on global air quality than was previously assumed. This is the conclusion drawn by ... > full story -
Ranking Consumers By Environmental Behavior: India, Brazil Top Index; United States Ranks Last
May 8, 2008 — National Geographic and the international polling firm GlobeScan will unveil results of a new mechanism for measuring and comparing consumer behavior concerning the environment. Fourteen thousand ... > full story -
Ponds Found To Take Up Carbon Like World's Oceans
May 8, 2008 — Research led by Iowa State University limnologist John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's ... > full story -
Ocean Carbon Cycle Research Gets Boost From Satellite Data
May 7, 2008 — The Earth's oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25,000 million ... > full story -
Expert Predicts 'Monsoon Britain'
May 7, 2008 — Prepare for more floods -- in ways we are not used to. That's the message from experts at Durham University who have studied rainfall and river flow patterns over 250 years. Last summer was the ... > full story -
Chile's Chaiten Volcano One Of Scores Of Active Volcanoes In Region
May 7, 2008 — The Chaiten volcano now erupting in southern Chile is one of 200 to 300 volcanoes in the "Andean Arc" region of Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia considered active by volcanologists, some of which ... > full story -
Asteroid Impact 65 Million Years Ago Triggered A Global Hail Of Carbon Beads
May 5, 2008 — The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed ... > full story -
Rocks Under The Northern Ocean Are Found To Resemble Ones Far South
May 5, 2008 — Scientists probing volcanic rocks from deep under the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean have discovered a special geochemical signature until now found only in the southern hemisphere. The rocks ... > full story
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