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Humans likely influence giant airstreams

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

The increase of devastating weather extremes in summer is likely linked to human-made climate change, mounting evidence shows. Giant airstreams are circling the...

Satellites reveal bird habitat loss in California

Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)

Drought and reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields threaten a globally important stopover site for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds in C...

Scientists respond to criticisms of a new geological epoch

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

A team of academics led by the University of Leicester has responded to criticisms of the proposal to formalise a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene. Geolo...

Climate-addled jet streams boost drought, flood: study

Mar 27, 2017 (AFP)

Global warming amplifies severe droughts and floods by disrupting jet streams, the powerful high-altitude air currents that move west-to-east across the norther...

China to launch new weather satellite in second half of 2017

Mar 27, 2017 (XNA)

China will launch a new meteorological satellite in the second half of this year, which will be capable of detecting auroras, the China Aerospace Science and Te...

Unravelling Earth's magnetic field

Mar 23, 2017 (ESA)

ESA's Swarm satellites are seeing fine details in one of the most difficult layers of Earth's magnetic field to unpick - as well as our planet's magnetic histor...

AI helps capture a volcano's changing lava lake

Mar 23, 2017 (JPL)

One of our planet's few exposed lava lakes is changing, and artificial intelligence is helping NASA understand how. On January 21, a fissure opened at the top o...

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

Mar 21, 2017 (ESA)

The notion of glitter might appear as somewhat frivolous, but scientists are using Sun glitter in images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to map the motio...

NASA says goodbye to a Pathfinder Earth Satellite after 17 years

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 The first to map active lava flows from space. The first to measure a facility's methane leak from space. The first to track re-...

Less radiation in inner Van Allen belt than previously believed

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

The inner Van Allen belt has less radiation than previously believed, according to a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Observations from NASA...

Beautiful science with astronaut aurora

Mar 21, 2017 (ESA)

Some of the most wonderful pictures taken by astronauts from space are of aurora dancing over our planet. Now the photos are more than just pretty pictures than...

Taking Animal Magnetism to the Extreme

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Each beat of your heart or burst of brain activity relies on tiny electrophysiological currents that generate minuscule ripples in the surrounding magnetic fiel...

SAGE III Achieves First Light from Space Station Perch

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III, or SAGE III, reached another in a series of major recent milestones Friday, March 17, by collecting first ligh...

From the butterfly's wing to the tornado: Predicting turbulence

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can trigger a tornado in Texas weeks later. Though chaos theory says it's basically impossible ...

Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylands

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which may affect soil organisms in ways t...

Optical fingerprint can reveal pollutants in the air

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have proposed a new, sophistica...

NASA Satellite Identifies Global Ammonia 'Hotspots'

Mar 17, 2017 (JPL)

The first global, long-term satellite study of airborne ammonia gas has revealed "hotspots" of the pollutant over four of the world's most productive agricultur...

Half of Washington's cherry blossoms dead after cold snap

Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)

This week's bitter cold snap killed about half of Washington's beloved cherry blossoms, and the survivors are now expected to peak at the end of next week, the ...

Scientists consider how city skylines influence weather

Mar 16, 2017 (UPI)

The contours of Earth's surface, its topography, influences local weather patterns, and city buildings are part of a place's topography. But how exactly does a ...

Relativistic Electrons Uncovered with NASA's Van Allen Probes

Mar 16, 2017 (SPX)

Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years ago, but their behavior is s...