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Amazon Forest Fire Risk to Increase in 2013
June 7, 2013 — University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere. The outlook is ... > full story -
Climate Conditions Determine Amazon Fire Risk
June 7, 2013 — Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest ... > full story -
Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon
June 7, 2013 — Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. The ... > full story -
Stranded Orcas Hold Critical Clues for Scientists
June 7, 2013 — The development of a standardized killer-whale necropsy system has boosted the complete data from killer-whale strandings from two percent to about 33 percent, according to a recent ... > full story -
Earthquake Acoustics Can Indicate If a Massive Tsunami Is Imminent
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan earthquake that indicated it would cause a large tsunami. The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early warning ... > full story -
Gannets Don't Eat Off Each Other's Plates
June 6, 2013 — Colonies of gannets maintain vast exclusive fishing ranges despite doing nothing to defend their territory from rival colonies, scientists have ... > full story -
Stalagmites Provide New View of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years
June 6, 2013 — A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to ... > full story -
Pollution in Northern Hemisphere Helped Cause 1980s African Drought
June 6, 2013 — Air pollution in the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-20th century cooled the upper half of the planet and pushed rain bands south, contributing to the prolonged and worsening drought in Africa's Sahel ... > full story -
NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometer
June 6, 2013 — A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past. Literally years in ... > full story -
Alpine Lakes Reflect Climate Change
June 6, 2013 — Global warming impacts lakes' structure, function and water quality. Increases in temperature as a result of climate change are mirrored in lake waters where temperatures are also on the rise. A new ... > full story
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