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Unusual Weather: Arctic Sea Ice Decline May Be Driving Snowy Winters Seen in Recent Years in N. Hemisphere
February 27, 2012 — A new study provides further evidence of a relationship between melting ice in the Arctic regions and widespread cold outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere. The study’s findings could improve ... > full story -
Research Yields Better Seasonal Climate Forecasts
February 13, 2012 — Arctic sea ice is rapidly retreating. Within a few decades the North Pole could be completely ice-free in summer. How will that affect our weather? In the research project "Seasonal Predictability ... > full story -
NASA's GCPEx Mission: What We Don't Know About Snow
February 1, 2012 — NASA's GCPEx science team is collecting as much data as they can to improve understanding of snow dynamics inside clouds, because they relate to how snow moves through Earth's water and climate ... > full story -
Yellow-Cedar Are Dying in Alaska: Scientists Now Know Why
February 1, 2012 — Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 ... > full story -
Less Summer Arctic Sea Ice Cover Means Colder, Snowier Winters in Central Europe
February 1, 2012 — Even if the current weather situation may seem to go against it, the probability of cold winters with a lot of snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in ... > full story -
Saving the Snow Leopard With Stem Cells
January 23, 2012 — The survival of the endangered snow leopard is looking promising thanks to scientists who have, for the first time, produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of an adult ... > full story -
Airborne Science Laboratory Treks to Great White North to Study Snow
January 12, 2012 — Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory, including a unique airborne radar built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a ... > full story -
Cold Winters Caused by Warmer Summers, Research Suggests
January 12, 2012 — Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern hemisphere: increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating more ... > full story -
Dramatic Links Found Between Climate Change, Elk, Plants, and Birds
January 10, 2012 — Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high ... > full story -
Impacts of Climate Change on World's Highest Mountains
December 4, 2011 — Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia's mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan region -- site of Mount Everest and many of the world's ... > full story
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