Tree stump in lignite deposits. Credit: Vittoria Lauretano New research led by the University of BristolThe University of Bristol, a red brick research university in…
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The cold snap struck North America’s mid-west and deep south in February 2021, resulting in the coldest recorded temperatures in almost a century in Texas.…
Only around 17% of the carbon budget is now left. That is about 10 years at current emission rates. Credit: ESA/Planetary Visions The Paris Agreement…
A first global assessment using satellite observations shows that for two-thirds of the world, afforestation increases low-level cloud cover, with the effect being strongest over…
Interest in African dust began over 50 years ago when it was discovered that it was frequently transported across the Atlantic in great quantities. New…
Individual trees in urban areas provide cooling during evening, research shows. A single tree along a city street or in a backyard can provide measurable…
A scuba diver observes the purple, white and green microbes covering rocks in Lake Huron’s Middle Island Sinkhole. Credit: Phil Hartmeyer, NOAA Thunder Bay National…
Illustration of ESA’s Mars Express at Mars. Credit: ESA Long-term studies of ozone and water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars could lead to better…
The three main weather patterns on Venus. Researchers think the dayside poleward circulation and newly discovered nightside equatorial circulation may fuel the planetwide super-rotation that…
“Wild pigs are just like tractors plowing through fields, turning over soil to find food,” Dr. O’Bryan said. Credit: The University of Queensland By uprooting…
Ocean waves are one way microplastics enter the atmosphere. Ocean water, is full of insoluble plastic particles that bob to the top layer of water…
Juno has discovered a new population of highly energetic ions (bright blue spots) at midlatitudes within the inner edge of Jupiter’s relativistic electron belt, a…
Shanghai, China New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just…
This photo of sea ice on the Wandel Sea north of Greenland was taken August 16, 2020, from the German icebreaker Polarstern, which passed through…
Meteor Crater, Arizona. This crater is the result of an impact of a 50m meteor, whereas the impacts described in the current work may have…
Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm changes in the Southern Great Plains. Large thunderstorms in the…
NIST researchers used a laser frequency-comb instrument (illustration at lower right) to simultaneously measure three airborne greenhouse gases — nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and water…
These AIM images span June 6-June 18, 2021, when the Northern Hemisphere noctilucent cloud season was well underway. The colors — from dark blue to…
Researchers used NIST’s agricomb to simultaneously measure emissions of methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor from the atmosphere around a beef cattle feedlot in…
Some of the complex structural arrangements of catalysts;left is known as branched structure and the right as cage structure. Credit: Professor Anna Klinkova of the…