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Best Hope for Saving Arctic Sea Ice Is Cutting Soot Emissions, Say Researchers
Soot from the burning of
fossil fuels and solid
biofuels contributes far
more to global warming than
has been thought, according
... > full story
Polarstern Expedition: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Dives Under the Arctic Ice
The Alfred Wegener Institute
for Polar and Marine
Research in the Helmholtz
Association for the first
time sent its Autonomous
... > full story
Signs of Reversal of Arctic Cooling: Rapid Temperature Rise in the Coldest Region of Mainland Europe
Parts of the Arctic have
cooled over the past
century, but temperatures
have been rising steeply
since 1990, according to a
... > full story
Marine Biodiversity Strongly Linked to Ocean Temperature
Scientists have mapped and
analyzed global biodiversity
patterns for over 11,000
marine species ranging from
tiny zooplankton to sharks
and whales. ... > full story
- Best Hope for Saving Arctic Sea Ice Is Cutting Soot Emissions, Say Researchers
- Polarstern Expedition: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Dives Under the Arctic Ice
- Signs of Reversal of Arctic Cooling: Rapid Temperature Rise in the Coldest Region of Mainland Europe
- Marine Biodiversity Strongly Linked to Ocean Temperature
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Black Carbon Implicated in Global Warming
July 30, 2010 — Increasing the ratio of black carbon to sulfate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a new ... > full story -
New Theory of Why Midcontinent Faults Produce Earthquakes
July 30, 2010 — A new theory may solve the mystery of why the New Madrid fault, which lies in the middle of the continent and not along a tectonic plate boundary, produces large earthquakes such as the ones that ... > full story -
A Future With or Without Trees: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Brazilian Amazon State
July 29, 2010 — Researchers have estimated future emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane in the Brazilian Amazon state of Mato Grosso. The estimates were made by combining 105 years of historical ... > full story -
Marine Phytoplankton Declining: Striking Global Changes at the Base of the Marine Food Web Linked to Rising Ocean Temperatures
July 28, 2010 — A new article reveals for the first time that microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton have been declining globally over the 20th century. Phytoplankton forms the basis of the marine food ... > full story -
Carbon Emissions Threaten Fish Populations
July 27, 2010 — Humanity's rising carbon dioxide emissions could have a significant impact on the world's fish populations, according to groundbreaking new research. Baby fish may become easy meat for predators as ... > full story -
Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter's Huge Snows in U.S.
July 26, 2010 — The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had little relation ... > full story -
Arctic Voyage Illuminating Ocean Optics
July 26, 2010 — During NASA's ICESCAPE voyage to the Arctic, scientists have been looking at the phytoplankton in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea -- how many, how big and at what depths they are found. But there are other ... > full story -
Unaccounted Feedbacks from Climate-Induced Ecosystem Changes May Increase Future Climate Warming
July 26, 2010 — In addition to the carbon cycle-climate interactions that have been a major focus of modeling work in recent years, other biogeochemistry feedbacks could be at least equally important for future ... > full story -
Amount of Dust, Pollen Matters for Cloud Precipitation, Climate Change
July 26, 2010 — Atmospheric scientists have discovered that an abundance of aerosol particles are needed to help form ice crystals in clouds, which can influence precipitation and climate ... > full story -
Researchers Calculate the Cost of CO2 Emissions, Call for Carbon Tax
July 25, 2010 — Researchers are calling on policymakers to encourage the transition from coal-based electricity production to a system based on natural gas through a carbon ... > full story
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