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Chemistry World May 9, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation, chemistry Mineral dust that swirls up into the atmosphere from Earth's surface plays a far more important role in both cloud formation and cloud chemistry than was previously realized. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
'Acid soot' worsens smog Researchers in the US say soot particles in the atmosphere combine with other pollutants to pick up an acid coating that may worsen their influence on local smog and global warming. |
Chemistry World August 24, 2011 Josh Howgego |
Cosmic Rays Get Ahead in CLOUD Organic chemical vapours may have a previously unimagined cooling effect on global climate. |
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Otis Port |
Rainmaking Has Its True Believers -- And Skeptics While modern rainmakers and their clients believe the technology works, convincing the skeptics will be difficult. |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater. |
Chemistry World March 4, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Accumulation of acid in atmosphere explained The research could also have implications for global climate modelling, enabling scientists to reduce uncertainties related to the effects of aerosols in their predictions. |
Chemistry World October 13, 2010 James Urquhart |
Aerosol theory solidifies An international team of researchers has found that atmospheric aerosol particles long thought to be liquid can in fact be amorphous solids. The discovery could improve atmospheric models and climate predictions. |
Chemistry World February 12, 2010 Ned Stafford |
Belief in climate change plunges Recent polls suggest the public in the UK and US are becoming increasingly sceptical about climate change. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Geotimes April 2005 Sara Pratt |
Space Dust and Snowball Earth Within the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy are thousands of giant clouds of dust. Some researchers now say that these clouds collide with Earth every 140 million years, possibly explaining the causes of two distinct periods of widespread glaciation in the planet's geologic past. |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale. |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Chemistry World May 13, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Star chamber sparkles with space dust Nasa has created star dust down here on Earth. The dust was produced in a lab by simulating the conditions found in the atmosphere of a red giant star. |
Chemistry World August 6, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Organic aerosol mystery solved Scientists believe they may have cracked an important conundrum in atmospheric chemistry: how a volatile molecule released by plants helps to form aerosols that can have a profound effect on weather and climate systems. |
Popular Mechanics July 2, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
The Truth About Water on Mars: 5 New Findings Phoenix reveals much about water, but there's a lot left to learn -- especially about the big question: the possibility of life in Mars. |
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation. |
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson |
Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods. |
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Natural Bumps in the Atmosphere Temperatures at Earth's surface have been rising for decades, but in the upper atmosphere, the temperature is slowly dropping. In explaining this change, scientists have focused on human-related causes -- but a new study shows that nature should not be ignored. |
Outside July 2007 Amanda Griscom Little |
Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try. |
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise. |
Popular Mechanics November 3, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
How Geoengineering Works: 5 Big Plans to Stop Global Warming Some scientists believe that now is the time to research such proposals so that in 10 or 20 years, should governments fail to act, scientists have them at the ready. |
Chemistry World July 19, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Antarctic Atmosphere Could Give Gaia Hypothesis a Boost The surprising discovery of significant quantities of iodine oxide in the lower atmosphere above Antarctica will have a potentially significant impact on current models of global atmospheric chemistry. |
Geotimes February 2007 Cassandra Willyard |
Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Paul McFedries |
Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words |
Wired June 23, 2008 Chris Mooney |
Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? Geoengineering may be the necessary step to save our planet. |
Wired February 25, 2008 Peter Schwartz |
Humans Have Been Changing the Climate for Eons. That's Reason for Hope. Our epoch needs a new name. Scientists like Anthropocene to represent the era when people started messing up nature. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Adam Aston |
Wild Fixes For A Warming Planet Scientists are envisioning giant but risky engineering projects to undo climate change. |
Geotimes November 2003 Naomi Lubick |
Meeting updates: particles on Mars and Earth Ripples and dunes on Mars... The future of dust on Earth |
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Ice Twists Under Pressure Confined inside tiny, hollow cylinders called carbon nanotubes, and subjected to high pressures similar to those found at a planet's core, water freezes into tiny ice spirals that resemble the DNA double helix, a new study shows. |
Chemistry World May 27, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Getting to grips with volcanic ash As the disruption to air travel caused by the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland subsides, researchers are taking a close look at volcanic ash to try to understand how hazardous it is to both aircraft engines and human health. |
Popular Mechanics May 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Ice Sculptures for Science: Chain Saws, Pickaxes, Methane Hydrates and Climate Change One of the greatest unknowns regarding the future pace of climate change involves a source of greenhouse gases we can't even see, let alone control. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 |
Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work |
Popular Mechanics April 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Weather Modders Aim to End Droughts With Efficiency by Sky Armed with new technology, cloud seeders fly to the rescue of water-starved regions of the country. |
Science News February 9, 2008 |
Science Safari: Marine Cloudmakers Video that explains how marine particles get distributed to the atmosphere. |
Wired October 2009 Mike Olson |
Weather Geeks Champion New Armageddon-Worthy Cloud Strange, ominous-looking clouds of late dubbed undulatus asperatus are a new anomaly that may be the newest entry into the International Cloud Atlas. |
Outside April 2002 |
The Wild File Is it ever too cold to snow?... Why aren't there fireflies on the West Coast?... Is it true that drinking hot tea or other beverages in hot weather cools you?... |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 |
Dust-Devil Dynamo Natural electric fields can play a role in determining the amount of dust that makes it into the atmosphere, influencing weather and climate. |
Geotimes July 2004 Sara Pratt |
Recalculating the Warming Trend Over the past 15 years climate researchers have observed that while temperatures at the earth's surface have been quickly on the rise, the troposphere has been warming more slowly than expected. |
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jon Evans |
World's smallest ice cube created Ice crystals must contain at least 275 water molecules, say German chemists. This size limit has implications for any process that involves ice particles, from cloud formation to making the perfect gin and tonic. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger |
Q&A With: Ecologist and Geoengineering Expert Philip Boyd Ecologist Philip Boyd says we need to figure out the benefits and risks of geoengineering now |
Popular Mechanics August 21, 2008 Emily Gertz |
Desert Storm Watch: Scientists Observe Saharan Dust to Predict the Next Big Hurricane Season A University of Wisconsin researcher and his team have connected the dry, windswept plains of the Sahara to the intensity of the Atlantic hurricane season. |
Science News April 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Spencer Klein |
IceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter Searching Antarctica for the frozen paths of cosmic-ray neutrinos |
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. |
Geotimes November 2003 Sara Pratt |
Stuck between a rock and a cold place A stalagmite mined from an island cave in the Indian Ocean suggests that the ages currently assigned to the gold standard of ancient climate records -- the Greenland ice cores -- need revision for the period between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago. |