NASA has made new data available that can provide air pollution observations at unprecedented resolutions – down to the scale of individual neighborhoods.
NASA Releases New High-Quality, Near Real-Time Air Quality Data
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Historic Iceberg Surges Offer Insights on Modern Climate Change
A great armada entered the North Atlantic, launched from the cold shores of North America.
New CSU Research Shows Soil Microbes Could Produce Additional Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Thawing Permafrost
As the planet has warmed, scientists have long been concerned about the potential for harmful greenhouse gasses to seep out of thawing Arctic permafrost.
Warmer Wetter Climate Predicted to Bring Societal and Ecological Impact to the Tibetan Plateau
While recent reports have stated that more than half the world’s largest lakes, including lakes in the Tibetan plateau, are drying up, a paper in Nature Geoscience today (27/5/24 DOI 10.1038/s41561-024-01446-w ) suggests that, by the end of this century, land-locked lakes on the Tibetan Plateau are set to increase exponentially, resulting in major land loss and related economic, environmental and climatic impacts.
HKUST Researchers Enhance Performance of Eco-Friendly Cooling Applications by Developing Sustainable Strategy to Manipulate Interfacial Heat Transfer
Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a sustainable and controllable strategy to manipulate interfacial heat transfer, paving the way for improving the performance of eco-friendly cooling in various applications such as electronics, buildings and solar panels.
Secrets of Sargassum: Scientists Advance Knowledge of Seaweed Causing Chaos in the Caribbean and West Africa
Researchers have been working to track and study floating sargassum, a prolific seaweed swamping Caribbean and West African shorelines, and causing environmental and economic harm.
