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November 19, 2014
Video of the Week: A Year in the Life of Earth’s Carbon Dioxide
Sometimes it is easy to forget we are all members of a unified environment on Earth and actions in one area affect many others. In this new NASA computer model, though, scientists provide a comprehensive understanding of how...
October 31, 2014
Autumn leaves herald changes in carbon dioxide concentrations
Autumn leaves in Connecticut. (Credit: Ragesoss, Wikimedia Commons) Autumn is a season of tranformations. In the eastern United States, leaves tumble through a kaleidoscope of copper and crimson colors. In the west, rivers of golden Aspen...
October 24, 2014
Warming world uncovers frozen past
What’s that smell? If you are on an ice patch in the Yukon Territory in Canada, the answer might be millennia-old caribou dung. Weapon shaft in Yukon ice patch (Credit: Yukon Government) In 1997, sheep hunters...
October 10, 2014
It’s not easy being blue (for plants)
Scientists have found tropical plants that perform “delayed greening,” a process of postponing the development of chlorophyll to protect young leaves from predators and potential UV damage. Interestingly, researchers have also found a few trees with blue...
September 26, 2014
Fighting fires with science
The King Fire blazed across headlines earlier this month when it morphed from a minor incident near the hamlet of Pollock Pines, California, into a massive wildfire that has since scorched more than 140 square miles of parched, rugged...
September 16, 2014
Good news on ozone layer should spur climate action
For the first time since 1980, the ozone layer that shields us from harmful radiation is repairing itself after being eaten away over decades by human-produced chemicals. The good news comes just in time to celebrate...
August 25, 2014
Inside the science of sinkholes
Sinkholes aren’t new, but they certainly make news, causing millions of dollars of damage, contaminating water supplies, and even claiming lives. This latest monster under the bed appears often without warning and with potentially catastrophic results, as...
August 17, 2014
Pieces of an Atmospheric Puzzle
Take two breaths. One came from the ocean. More specifically, it came from microscopic plant-like organisms known at phytoplankton, which produce half of Earth’s oxygen as they drift around the ocean (and other water bodies). Together...
August 5, 2014
Water Quality Concerns in the Great Lakes. Again.
Since the 1970s, when limnologist David Schindler and his colleagues began actively publishing the results of their work in the Experimental Lakes Area, there has been conclusive evidence that a steady flow of excess phosphorus in...
July 12, 2014
Phytoremediation: The power of plants to clean up the environment
The tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 not only caused extensive damage to the country’s infrastructure, but also poisoned the environment when it caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant to leak radiation into the surrounding area. ...
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