News articles tagged with 'snow'
The dark side of spring? Pollution in our melting snow
— 29 Mar 2011 15:58 | EnvironmentWith birds chirping and temperatures warming, spring is finally in the air. But for University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) environmental chemist Torsten Meyer, springtime has a dark…
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…
Wolverine population threatened by climate change
— 4 Feb 2011 15:52 | EnvironmentThe aggressive wolverine may not be powerful enough to survive climate change in the contiguous United States, new research concludes…
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…
Loss of reflectivity in the Arctic doubles estimate of climate models
— 19 Jan 2011 18:08 | EnvironmentA new analysis of the Northern Hemisphere's 'albedo feedback' over a 30-year period concludes that the region's loss of reflectivity due to snow and sea ice decline is more than double…
Shrinking snow and ice cover intensify global warming
— 19 Jan 2011 17:41 | EnvironmentThe decreases in Earth's snow and ice cover over the past 30 years have exacerbated global warming more than models predict they should have, on average, new research from the University…
Windborne dust on high peaks dampens Colorado River runoff
— 21 Sep 2010 11:55 | EnvironmentOn spring winds, something wicked this way comes - at least for the mountains of the Colorado River Basin and their ecosystems, and for people who depend on snowmelt from these mountains…
Looking for the coolest forms of life on Earth
— 7 Aug 2010 09:25 | AstronomyTwo UK scientists are travelling to one of the coldest places on Earth to help them understand how life could exist on other planets in our Solar System. Professor Liane Benning (University…
Converging weather patterns caused last winter's huge snows
— 27 Jul 2010 09:55 | EnvironmentThe memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had…
Aircraft cause precipitation, hole-punch clouds
— 15 Jun 2010 02:26 | EnvironmentAs turboprop and jet aircraft climb or descend under certain atmospheric conditions, they can inadvertently seed mid-level clouds and cause narrow bands of snow or rain to develop and…