Thursday, February 12th, 2015
Feb. 11, 2015—The Global Canopy Programme’s ‘Forest 500’, launched 11th February, identifies, ranks, and tracks the governments, companies and financial institutions worldwide that together could virtually eradicate tropical deforestation.
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
We know too well that weather on Earth can affect our daily lives. But what about weather in space? Solar flares, geomagnetic storms, and other types of space weather have the potential to disrupt a range of critical infrastructure, including telecommunications, power grids, and GPS applications. Such disruptions could pose significant threats to our safety, security,
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
Feb. 12, 2015—A new study led by Colorado State University found wide variations in the amount of methane being emitted at U.S. natural gas gathering facilities and processing plants.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
Feb. 6, 2015—A NASA scientist who has played a key role developing and demonstrating a new technique for gathering around-the-clock global carbon-dioxide (CO2) measurements is applying the same general principles to develop a new laser instrument sensitive to another greenhouse gas — methane.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
WASHINGTON – There is no substitute for dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, a National Research Council committee concluded in a two-volume evaluation of proposed climate-intervention techniques. Strategies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are limited by cost and technological immaturity, but they could contribute to
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
Stony Brook, NY, Feb. 9, 2015 – An international team of scientists, including Minghua Zhang, Dean and Director of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), has found that man-made aerosol emissions from industrial processes have changed the relationship between temperature and precipitation in the northing tropics. The findings, published early online in Nature Geoscience,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
A recent science exchange hosted by the Chinese Geological Survey has given Australian and Chinese researchers a chance to share expertise in greenhouse gas monitoring technologies.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2015—Proposals to technically intervene with the climate – known as “geoengineering” – have long been controversial among scientists. However, the failure to significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions has forced further scrutiny of these climate intervention strategies. A committee of the National Research Council has evaluated technologies that involve either removing carbon
Monday, January 26th, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama’s Administration moved to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, widely considered one of the most spectacular and remote areas in the world. The Department of the Interior is releasing a conservation plan for the Refuge that for the first time recommends additional protections, and President Obama announced he will
Sunday, January 25th, 2015
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Melting glaciers are not just impacting sea level, they are also affecting the flow of organic carbon to the world’s oceans, according to new research that provides the first ever global-scale estimates for the storage and release of organic carbon from glaciers.
