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Lungs-Inspired Filtering System to Remove Carbon Dioxide from Electric Power Station Smokestacks

The amazingly efficient lungs of birds and the swim bladders of fish have become the inspiration for a new filtering system to remove carbon dioxide from electric power station smokestacks before the main greenhouse gas can billow into the atmosphere and contribute to global climate change.

10 Sep 2013

NSF Center to Study Effect of Atmospheric Particles on the Environment and Climate

Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla will today announce a five-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative program of research and education on how interactions between air and sea alter the chemistry of the atmosphere to influence climate.

10 Sep 2013

UEA Researchers Report Upset in Natural Chemical Cycles Due to Rising Ocean Temperatures

New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorous.

10 Sep 2013

New Study Reveals Impact of Global Warming on Likelihood of Record Heat

Drought shriveled crops in the Midwest, massive wildfires raged in the West and East Coast cities sweltered. The summer of 2012 was a season of epic proportions, especially July, the hottest month in the history of U.S. weather record keeping.

7 Sep 2013

Ice Sheets Grew on West Antarctic Subcontinent at Start of Greenhouse-Icehouse Transition

The results of research conducted by professors at UC Santa Barbara and colleagues mark the beginning of a new paradigm for our understanding of the history of Earth's great global ice sheets. The research shows that, contrary to the popularly held scientific view, an ice sheet on West Antarctica existed 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

6 Sep 2013

Research on Exploring Ways to Reduce Impact of Rising Urban Heat

Challenges are on the horizon for urban areas facing expectations of higher temperatures in the future. The situation could be particularly acute in the arid climate of the Southwest, where urban heat is already trending upward.

5 Sep 2013

Researchers Launch Around 75 Weather Balloons to Study Atmospheric Effect of Aerosols

Professor Jim Sherman enjoys the area’s mesmerizing blue skies as much as anyone else. But it’s the particles known as aerosols found in the atmosphere that intrigue him the most.

4 Sep 2013

GAeF Honors Young Aerosol Researcher with 2013 Smoluchowski Prize

James Allan, now a Senior Research Fellow in SEAES and a member of the National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, has been awarded the 2013 Smoluchowski Prize by the German Aerosol Society GAeF at the European Aerosol Conference in Prague.

4 Sep 2013

Cosmic Impact in Quebec 12,900 Years Ago Linked to Dramatic Climate Shift

For the first time, a dramatic climate shift that has long fascinated scientists has been linked to the impact in Quebec of an asteroid or comet, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues report in a new study funded by the National Science Foundation.

3 Sep 2013

Ozone Depletion over the South Pole Affects Extreme Daily Precipitation in Austral Summer

The new study by Prof. Sarah Kang from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), showed that the ozone depletion over the South Pole has affected the extreme daily precipitation in the austral summer, for December, January, and February (DJF). This work was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letter. (Title: “Modeling evidence that ozone depletion has impacted extreme precipitation in the austral summer”, Vol. 40, 1-6, doi:10.1002/grl.50796, 2013)

31 Aug 2013