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Study: changing climate prompts boreal forest shift
The findings are the result of a study led by University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Natural Resources and Extension researcher Glenn Juday, Claire Alix of…
Greenhouse-gas emissions raise extreme temperatures in China
“There is a warming in extreme temperatures over China, and this warming cannot be explained by natural variation,” said Qiuzi Han Wen, an author on this paper…
Summer melt season is getting longer on the Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula – a mountainous region extending northwards towards South America – is warming much faster than the rest of Antarctica. Temperatures…
UC San Diego Researchers Create Tool to Put the Lid on Solar Power Fluctuations
And can researchers predict these fluctuations? UC San Diego Professor Jan Kleissl and Matthew Lave, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical and…
NASA Satellite Improves Pollution Monitoring
The research team, led by Joseph Nigro of Science Systems and Applications, Inc., incorporated two NASA products into a computer program in BASINS (Better…
Low-cost temperature sensors, tennis balls to monitor mountain snowpack
The University of Washington assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering uses dime-sized temperature sensors, first developed for the…