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New Type Of El Nino Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall
A new study suggests that
the form of El Nino may be
changing potentially causing
not only a greater number of
hurricanes than in average
... > full story
QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
"June is busting out all
over," as the song says, and
with it, U.S. residents
along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts begin to gaze warily
toward the ocean, aware that
... > full story
Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland
New research, which
reconstructs the extent of
ice in the sea between
Greenland and Svalbard from
the 13th century to the
present indicates that there
... > full story
Amazon Conservation Policy Working In Brazil, Study Finds
Contrary to common belief,
Brazil's policy of
protecting portions of the
Amazonian forest from
development is capable of
buffering the Amazon from
... > full story
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Faults And Earthquakes In China Monitored From Space
July 3, 2009 — China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation ... > full story -
King Crabs Go Deep To Avoid Hot Water
July 2, 2009 — Researchers have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant - the king crab. The results reveal temperature as a driving ... > full story -
Subseafloor Sediment In South Pacific Gyre One Of Least Inhabited Places On Earth
July 1, 2009 — Oceanographers have found so few organisms beneath the seafloor that it may be the least inhabited sediment ever explored for evidence of ... > full story -
Earth's Most Prominent Rainfall Feature Creeping Northward
July 1, 2009 — The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years. If the band ... > full story -
Super-size Deposits Of Frozen Carbon In Arctic Could Worsen Climate Change
June 30, 2009 — The vast amount of carbon stored in the Arctic and boreal regions of the world is more than double that previously estimated, according to a new study. The new estimate is over 1.5 trillion tons of ... > full story -
Many Antarctic Species Ill Prepared To Cope With Warmer Ocean
June 30, 2009 — Researchers subjected species found in Antarctic waters to increasing levels of water temperature to learn how well they would cope with a warmer ocean. The study shows that several of these species ... > full story -
First Successful Use Of New Ocean Observation Technology – Investigation Of Ocean Acidification In The Baltic Sea
June 29, 2009 — For the first time, scientists in Germany successfully used an offshore observing system to study environmental changes in the oceans. The so-called mesocosms resemble oversized test tubes with a ... > full story -
First Global Map Of Ammonia Emissions Measured From Space Reveals New Hotspots
June 29, 2009 — The first complete map of global ammonia emissions has recently been achieved using to satellite data. It reveals an underestimation of some of the ammonia concentrations detected by current ... > full story -
Desert Dust Alters Ecology Of Colorado Alpine Meadows
June 29, 2009 — Accelerated snowmelt -- precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains -- changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to a new study. ... > full story -
Hand-held Aerosol Sensors Help Fill Crucial Data Gap Over Oceans
June 29, 2009 — Since NASA researchers began assembling the Aerosol Robotic Network in the 1990s, the worldwide network of ground-based aerosol sensors has grown to 400 sites across seven continents. The trouble is ... > full story
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