Making Air Travel Greener, With Some Help From Space
Air passengers will soon be able to cut their carbon footprint when traveling on flights that are routed using satellites. An agreement signed today between…
Air passengers will soon be able to cut their carbon footprint when traveling on flights that are routed using satellites. An agreement signed today between…
Among the four rocky planets in our solar system, you could say that Earth’s “magnetic” personality is the envy of her interplanetary neighbors. When solar…
Scientific Questions Arrive in Ports Satellite observations of nitrogen dioxide near key U.S. ports suggest that increased shipping activity and backlogs may be affecting air…
A team of scientists, including experts from the University of Adelaide, suggest that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a…
January 1 – October 7, 2021 A colder than usual winter atmosphere over the Southern Hemisphere led to a deep and larger-than-average ozone hole in…
Marine-dissolved organic matter, which originates from phytoplankton, holds as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere, yet the biological processes governing its fate are primarily studied under…
Knowing the steps is not the same thing as knowing how to dance. Similarly, policy interventions to stop deforestation are most effective when enacted in…
Stop fossil fuels from causing global warming within a generation… The Carbon Takeback Obligation could do just that. Imagine a single policy, imposed on one…
October 10 – 25, 2021 One of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever to strike the Pacific Northwest drew an equally historic amount of moisture…
With mountain snowpacks shrinking in the western US, new Berkeley Lab study analyzes when a low-to-no-snow future might arrive and implications for water management. Mountain…
Fallen trees kept afloat in sea ice reflect accelerated ice loss in the last 30 years. A new study reconstructs the path of frozen trees…
While analyzing some of the world’s oldest colored gemstones, researchers from the University of Waterloo discovered carbon residue that was once ancient life, encased in…
As satellites collect larger and larger amounts of data, engineers and researchers are implementing solutions to manage these huge increases. The cutting-edge Earth science satellites…
As the ice-and-snow rubble known as mélange melts in Antarctica’s ice shelves, rifts can grow and icebergs break off even in the brutal cold of…
Warm and dry conditions continue to affect agricultural lands in the U.S. Northern Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Decades of drought across the U.S. Southwest has led…
Recent storms added to an already heavy monsoon season. Persistent rain in mid-October 2021 brought more flooding to central and northeastern Thailand, where rivers and…
Study finds collisions that stalled oxygen growth on the planet are more common than thought. Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, a time known…
Volcanoes emit sulfur dioxide — a pungent gas that reacts with oxygen and moisture in the air to produce a haze called vog. More than…