News articles tagged with 'atmosphere' (Page 2)
Soot packs a punch on Tibetan Plateau's climate
— 4 Mar 2011 15:48 | EnvironmentIn some cases, soot - the fine, black carbon silt that is released from stoves, cars and manufacturing plants - can pack more of a climatic punch than greenhouse gases, according to…
Solar experts detect waves in giant magnetic holes the size of the UK
— 24 Feb 2011 18:56 | AstronomyMassive waves in giant magnetic holes on the surface of the Sun have been discovered for the first time by solar scientists from the University of Sheffield and Queen's University Belfast,…
Thawing permafrost likely will accelerate global warming
— 17 Feb 2011 18:12 | EnvironmentUp to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost likely will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a new study…
Insects hold atomic clues about the type of habitats in which they live
— 17 Feb 2011 18:09 | BiologyScientists have discovered that insects contain atomic clues as to the habitats in which they are most able to survive. The research has important implications for predicting the effects…
Acid oceans demand greater reef care
— 15 Feb 2011 15:12 | EnvironmentThe more humanity acidifies and warms the world's oceans with carbon emissions, the harder we will have to work to save our coral reefs…
Paper archives reveal pollution's history
— 8 Feb 2011 17:15 | EnvironmentSome of the history preserved in old tomes and newspapers may be hiding in between the lines of print. A Weizmann Institute scientist has found that the paper in such collections contains…
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
— 4 Feb 2011 16:49 | AstronomyEvery day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes' London, the moon looks…
2 severe Amazon droughts in 5 years alarms scientists
— 4 Feb 2011 16:22 | EnvironmentNew research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region's rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100…
Ice cores yield rich history of climate change
— 3 Feb 2011 17:27 | EnvironmentOn Friday, Jan. 28 in Antarctica, a research team investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history reached an important milestone completing the main ice core to a depth…
Jupiter scar likely from rocky body
— 27 Jan 2011 18:50 | AstronomyA hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus…