Archive for November 2, 2008
Wildfires Cause Ozone Pollution To Violate Health Standards, New Study Shows
Nov 2nd
Wildfires can boost ozone pollution to levels that violate U.S. health standards, a new study concludes. The research, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), focused on California wildfires in 2007, finding that they repeatedly caused ground-level ozone to spike to unhealthy levels across a broad area, including much of rural California More >
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Loading ...Probing Antarctic Glaciers For Clues To Past And Future Sea Level
Nov 2nd
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the size of Mexico. The research could show how Earth’s climate changed in the past and how future climate change More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Recent Hurricane History Provides Diverging Interpretations On Future Of Hurricane Activity
Nov 2nd
In a paper published in the journal Science, scientists Gabriel A. Vecchi of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Kyle L. Swanson of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Atmospheric Sciences Group and Brian J. Soden from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science teamed up to study hurricane data observed over More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Critically Endangered Fruit Bat Make Dramatic Return From Brink Of Extinction
Nov 2nd
A once critically endangered bat species, the ‘Pemba flying fox’, has made a dramatic return from the brink of extinction, according to new research. As recently as 1989, only a scant few individual fruit bats could be observed on the tropical island of Pemba, off Tanzania. Its numbers have since soared to an astounding 22,000 More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Wildflower Declines In Thoreau’s Concord Woods Are Due To Climate Changes
Nov 2nd
ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2008) — Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly different ways. Some of the plant families hit hardest by global warming have included beloved species More >
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