The research is producing new experimental methods, data acquisition, and theoretical understanding. Recently, scientists from the U.S. Salinity Laboratory,…
Atlantic salmon tagged with tiny acoustic transmitters crossed the 22 km line of acoustic receivers, deployed by the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN), in the…
Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeJuly temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.05 C (about 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) above20-year…
Chemists at UC San Diego have measured for the first time the impact that dirty smoke from ships cruising at sea and generating electricity in port can have on…
This will create a globally significant comprehensive entity comprised of a couple of dozen pilot systems and hundreds of laboratory-scale research devices. The device cooperation will promote the R&D projects of the research parties and other forestry sector parties. The objective is to improve profitability of operations and obtain investment savings as well as improve the competitive ability of the forest industry in the future….
Tons of soot are released into the air annually as forest fires rage from California to the Amazon to Siberia and Indonesia.Climate scientists have generally…
To track atmospheric change caused by human activity, researchers have long studied a variety of materials, from tree rings to air trapped in glacial ice. A…
“Global warming can explain part of this trend,” Dr. Staudt said, “because it is feeding longer fire seasons, drier conditions, and more lightning. According…
But two researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology hope to show that manufacturers can be both lean and green by incorporating processes…
By measuring rates of oxygen use in developing fish, which are sensitive to contaminants and stressful conditions, the technology could reveal the presence of…
A global study led by Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, shows that the number of “dead…
The search for what causes a debilitating shell disease affecting lobsters from Long Island Sound to Maine has led one Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)…
Palestinian and German scientists have recommended to the authorities in the Gaza Strip that they take immediate measures to combat excessive nitrate levels in…
Say the word “biofuels” and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there’s another, older technology called gasification that’s getting a new…
The findings show the connection of the world's coldest continent to global warming, as well as to periodic events such as El Niño.”As the tropics warm, so too…
According to a paper published today by a team of French, Australian, US and British scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…