Last year, the world’s rivers had their driest year in at least three decades, according to a new U.N. report, which warns that heat and drought are sapping vital waterways.
Low Stream Diatom Biodiversity Potentially Decreasing Stream Oxygen Production in Remote Islands
“It is known that highly biodiverse diatom communities are very efficient in producing oxygen” says Professor Janne Soininen from University of Helsinki.
Study Coordinates Satellite Swarm for 3D Imaging Inside Clouds
David Stanley’s interest in climate change led him to develop a program to improve how we gather data to study the inside of a cloud.
Hurricane Helene Stirs Up Gulf Coast Waters
Hurricane Helene charged into Florida’s Big Bend area on September 26, 2024, and pushed north with devastating consequences across several states.
Friday Find: How NOAA Researchers Tackled a ‘Bear’ of an Air Pollution Problem
Visitors to NOAA’s Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, may notice a toy bear perched high on a shelf in the hallway.
Antarctic ‘Greening’ at Dramatic Rate
Vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than tenfold over the last four decades, new research shows.
Forecasting Australia’s Disaster Migration Future
A multi-disciplinary University of Queensland project aims to quantify how many Australians will be forced to relocate because of climate change disaster scenarios in the next 25 years.
The Rate of Climate Change Threatens to Exceed the Adaptive Capacity of Species
A recent study from the University of Helsinki focusing on the Arctic Siberian primrose underscores the critical need to curb climate change to allow species time to adapt through evolution.
Most Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive
New observations from a retrofitted U2 spy plane reveal a surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms.
Smoke From Megafires Puts Orchard Trees at Risk
Long-term smoke exposure from massive wildfires lowers the energy reserves of orchard trees and can cut their nut production by half, researchers at the University of California, Davis, found.