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Operation Icebridge Studies Impact Caused by Summer Melt on Greenland Ice Sheet

Operation IceBridge is NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, and for the second time this year it is flying in Greenland in order to observe the impact caused by the summer melt season on the ice sheet.

7 Sep 2016

Researchers Develop Interactive Web Tool to Estimate Solar, Wind Energy Output at Any Location

Researchers have created an interactive web tool to estimate the amount of energy that could be generated by wind or solar farms at any location.

7 Sep 2016

Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment Alters Four Aspects of Climate Change

One of the world’s longest-running, most comprehensive climate change experiments produced some surprising results. The extensive experiment subjected grassland ecosystems to sixteen possible future climates and measured many aspects of ecosystem performance and sustainability.

6 Sep 2016

New Discovery Contradicts Widely Accepted Hypothesis About How Climate Change Will Affect Food Production

An eight-year study of soybeans grown outdoors in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere like that expected by 2050 has yielded a new and worrisome finding: Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations will boost plant growth under ideal growing conditions, but drought – expected to worsen as the climate warms and rainfall patterns change – will outweigh those benefits and cause yield losses much sooner than anticipated.

6 Sep 2016

Low Relative Humidity is Often Under-Appreciated Cause of Plant Stress in Dry Weather Conditions

Newly published research by Indiana University scientists finds that low relative humidity in the atmosphere is a significant, growing and often under-appreciated cause of plant stress in hot, dry weather conditions.

6 Sep 2016

Sandia, UNM Researchers Develop Powerful New Way to Capture Carbon Dioxide with Bubble-Like Membranes

Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have created a powerful new way to capture carbon dioxide from coal- and gas-fired electricity plants with a bubble-like membrane that harnesses the power of nature to reduce CO2 emissions efficiently.

2 Sep 2016

Research Findings Offer New Insights into Africa’s Climate History

From the depths of Lake Malawi, Melissa Berke has helped uncover evidence that offers new insights into a long-held theory about Africa’s climate history.

2 Sep 2016

Mobile-Phone Data Helps Track Exposure to Pollution in Urban Settings

What’s the best way to measure human exposure to urban pollution? Typically, cities do so by studying air-quality levels in fixed places. New York City, for example, has an extensive monitoring network that measures air quality in 155 locations.

2 Sep 2016

New Study Reveals Impact of Climate Change on Subantarctic Seabed Animals

A new marine biodiversity study in one of the largest Marine Protected Areas in the world reveals the impact of environmental change on subantarctic seabed animals and answers big questions about the extent of South Georgia's ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum around 20,000 years ago.

2 Sep 2016

Study Reveals Thunderstorms Cause Mercury to Spread

Afternoon thunderstorms are a regular feature on summer days in the south of the United States. However, according to a new study these storms do not only bring lightning and thunder, they are also moving considerable quantities of mercury to the ground.

1 Sep 2016