Environment
Wildfires in Southern California captured by satellite
Wildfires throughout Southern California has been captured by the backward (northward)-viewing camera of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. The image shown here was acquired mid-morning on 30 August 2009... — full story
Water scarcity started 15 years ago
— 26 August 15:19New analysis shows that the water scarcity being experienced in southeast Australia started up to 15 years ago. While the results from the work by senior CSIRO researcher, Dr Albert... — full story
New predictions for sea level rise
— 26 July 17:00Fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements have been used to place better constraints on future sea level rise, and to test sea level projections.... — full story
Solar cycle linked to global climate
— 16 July 17:34Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, new research led by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that maximum solar activity and its... — full story
After five years, NASA's Aura shines brightly
— 16 July 02:46On 15 July 2004 NASA's Aura spacecraft launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on a mission to study Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. Aura's data are helping... — full story
New form of El Nino could mean more hurricanes make landfall
— 2 July 18:00El Nino years typically result in fewer hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean. But a new study, published in the 3 July issue of Science, suggests that the form of El Nino may be... — full story
Land plants saved the Earth from a deep frozen fate
— 1 July 17:00Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled... — full story
Solar cycle linked to global climate
— 16 July 17:34Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, new research led by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that maximum solar activity and its... — full story