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NASA Science Shows Human Impact of Clean Air Policies
Dec 05, 2018 (SPX)
NASA recently initiated two projects to provide some answers drawing on its scientific expertise and global observations of air pollution from spacecraft orbiti...
Monitoring climate change from space
Dec 04, 2018 (ESA)
Representatives from almost 200 countries have gathered in Katowice, Poland for the 24th conference of the Parties (COP24) of the United Nations Framework Conve...
Earth needs climate 'reality check', space pioneer warns
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, brought a little galactic perspective to the COP24 talks in Poland, calling on delegates from nearly 200 cou...
To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads north
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
For a month's time, Ny-Alesund will be home to the rocket team behind NASA's VISIONS-2 mission, short for Visualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral Atom Sensing-2. Th...
Macroscopic phenomena governed by microscopic physics
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
In contrast, in situ observations with spacecrafts provide microscopic information of phenomena such as the Earth's magnetosphere, but it is difficult to obtain...
Greenhouse gas detergent recycles itself in atmosphere
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
The hydroxyl (OH) radical, a molecule made up of one hydrogen atom, one oxygen atom with a free (or unpaired) electron is one of the most reactive gases in the ...
Researchers rise to challenge of predicting hail, tornadoes three weeks in advance
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
Meteorologists and computer models do a good job forecasting severe thunderstorm activity up to a week in advance. Scientists can also read long-term, seasonal ...
India launches modern earth observation satellite
Nov 30, 2018 (XNA)
The satellite was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, off the Bay of Bengal coast, located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pr...
Extreme weather 'major' issue for Tokyo 2020
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking to bosses from Olympic Committees around the world, Tokyo CEO Toshiro Muto said the Japanese capital had endured "unprecedented heat weather and typhoo...
New insight into ocean-atmosphere interaction and subsequent cloud formation
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
Aerosols, which are suspended fine solid particles or liquid droplets, play significant roles in triggering climate change by scattering or absorbing sunlight, ...
SSTL releases first images from S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, NovaSAR-1
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
The S-Band SAR images released have been acquired using the satellite's stripmap mode at 6 metre resolution and are 20km wide by 87km long. They were taken over...
Volcanoes and glaciers combine as powerful methane producers
Nov 23, 2018 (SPX)
A study of Solheimajokull glacier, which flows from the active, ice-covered volcano Katla, shows that up to 41 tonnes of methane is being released through meltw...
Australia's spring brings fires, snow, wild winds and dust storms
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
Varied weather is not uncommon during spring in the southern hemisphere nation as summer beckons. But rare and dramatic scenes of red dust storms shrouding town...
Powerful new map depicts environmental degradation across Earth
Nov 21, 2018 (SPX)
UC geography professor Tomasz Stepinski created the new world map showing dramatic changes in land use over the last quarter century. Stepinski, a professor in ...
Researchers present unique database on Earth's vegetation
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, they present the world's first global vegetation database which contains over 1...
Glaciers and volcanoes combine to release large amounts of methane
Nov 20, 2018 (UPI)
New analysis of the Sólheimajökull glacier, a volcanic glacier in Iceland, suggests methane production is fueled by the unique combination of wet, low oxygen ...
Earth's magnetic field measured using artificial stars at 90 kilometers altitude
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
In 2011, researchers proposed that artificial guide stars could also be used to measure the Earth's magnetic field in the mesosphere. An international group of ...
Satellites encounter magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetotail
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Magnetic reconnection is an energy conversion process important in many astrophysical contexts including the Earth's magnetosphere, where the process releases t...
Chinese satellites provide advanced solutions to modeling small particles
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
Prof. MIN and his team - a group of researchers from the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of the Ministry of Education (KLME)/Joint International Resea...
Alpine ice shows three-fold increase in atmospheric iodine
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
The study showed, however that, although iodine can destroy 'bad' ozone, there isn't enough to counter all of the production. Researchers say it is now importan...
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