Credit: Pixabay/ Public DomainThe research team's study highlights the intricate feedback loop between wildfires and the atmosphere, suggesting that smoke produced by large wildfires may lead to more intense fires. The team's use of various tools to measure the effect of soot and other particles emitted into the air during large wildfires could help...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of four scientists at Pennsylvania State University analyzed the varying weather conditions in different regions of the world to gain a better understanding of the factors that limit the rate of weathering for different types of rocks.Carbon sequestrationThe researchers S. L. Brantley, Andrew Shaughnessy, Marina Lebedeva, and Victor Balashov...
The 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest brought record-setting temperatures from Oregon to British Columbia. Temperatures are displayed for 29 June 2021. Credit: European Space Agency/Copernicus Sentinel, CC BY-SA 2.0An extreme heat wave struck the Pacific Northwest in June 2021. Temperature levels soared above 40°C (104°F) across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, sometimes also approaching...
A narwhal swims amid ice during spring migration. Leaving the coast later each year may leave narwhals more vulnerable to getting trapped in sea ice that stops them surfacing. Credit: ReutersA group of investigators affiliated with many institutions in Canada as well as Denmark has discovered proof that narwhals have been changing their seasonal migration...
The earth has nine years to avert climate catastrophe. However, we are still pumping out record levels of pollution.A chimney from the Linden Cogeneration Plant is seen in Linden, New Jersey, on April 22nd, 2022. Credit: Kena Betancur / VIEWpressThe growing climate catastropheThe globe is rapidly coming close to a current level of climate catastrophe...
Credit: UnsplashSpecialists say that vegetables and fruit in stores will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry climate impacts crops.Carrots, Potatoes, Brussels sprouts, apples, and onions are prone to be the most affected.Several locations of the UK have seen extremely low rain in 2022, and parts of England remain in...
A view of Piz Benina. Credit: CGTN.The renowned snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading quick and being replaced by vegetation cover-- a procedure called "greening" that is predicted to increase climate change, a study said Thursday.The research, released in Science, was based on 38 years of satellite images throughout the entirety of the...
Man and a boy walk across the dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022. Credit: AP Photo.Because of Global Heating earth is slipping closer to the warming limit international agreements are striving to prevent. With close to a 50% possibility that The planet will...
Tropical Storm Ana dumped rainfall, intensified by climate change, across Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar in late January. Here, people stand on a vehicle overturned by floodwaters in Chikwawa, Malawi, on January 25. Credit: Bloomberg.Climate change intensified the rainfalls that battered southeastern Africa. Subsequently two powerful storms killed hundreds of individuals in early 2022.Heavy rains...
All over the world, farming methods have been established as a feature of topography, soil type, plant kind, yearly rainfall, and custom. This mosaic of six images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Discharge and Representation Radiometer (ASTER) sensing unit on NASA's Terra satellite shows differences in field geometry and size in different parts of...
