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Funding to Help Develop DRI’s Advanced Weather and Research Forecast Modeling Tool

Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada are taking place at unparalleled sizes and intensities as there is a warming in the climate, thereby posing risks to communities and resources across California and Nevada.

1 Apr 2022

Growth of Tropical Trees Hindered by Increased Heat and Drought

For a long period, ecologists supposed tree rings were not present in tropical trees due to a lack of temperature and rain variations in the trees' surroundings.

1 Apr 2022

Researchers Use Capacitance Probes to Study the Moisture Content in Sand Dunes

Deserts might appear to be inactive and lifeless, but they are known to be very much alive. Especially, sand dunes tend to grow and move from one place to another—and as per the decades-long research project performed, humid air is also breathed by them.

31 Mar 2022

Researchers Develop a New Process for the Production of Ethanol

There is a necessity for a significant decrease in CO2 emissions to restrict the impacts of climate change. This is in accordance with the latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

30 Mar 2022

Mammoth Mountain’s CO2 Emissions Strongly Linked to Weight of Snow and Ice Atop the Sierra Nevada

Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California's Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain's depths after a swarm of small earthquakes.

30 Mar 2022

Study Exposes Prevalence of Plasticizers and Flame-Retardants in Marine Environment

In the early 2000s, flame-retardant materials called PBDEs were successfully banned; however, it got substituted by another challenging chemical series termed organophosphate esters (OPEs).

29 Mar 2022

Newly-Developed Butterfly Attractor Helps Control and Change the Weather

Several years of global research performed have flashed the big question—can the weather be controlled by humans? As per the study reported recently in the Nonlinear Processes of Geophysics journal, this may turn out to be a new reality.

29 Mar 2022

Solid Aerosols Could Affect Cloud Formation and Climate in the Arctic

The Arctic is rapidly losing sea ice, and less ice means more open water, and more open water means more gas and aerosol emissions from the ocean into the air, warming the atmosphere and making it cloudier.

29 Mar 2022

Nature-Based Solutions for Carbon Removal can Lower Global Peak Warming Levels

A new study finds that temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower global peak warming levels but only if complemented by ambitious fossil fuel emission reductions.

29 Mar 2022

Significant Data Gathered Helps Predict Heavy Rain, Hail, and Graupel Precipitation

When the low-pressure system known as Bernd decided to park itself over a portion of Central Europe in the summer of 2021, the dangers of excessive rainfall were brought to light in the form of catastrophic flooding.

28 Mar 2022