Tornado/Microburst Simulator runs over a 3-D model of a two-mile by three-mile section of rough Alabama countryside.
Chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide.
The early arrival of spring across the U.S. undoubtedly has warmed the hearts of many people, but for flowering plants and pollinating insects, the trend toward earlier springs brings complicated, and not always good, results.
Global warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species’ genetic diversity.
A hemispherewide phenomenon – and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea.
Trees are dying in the Sahel, a region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and human-caused climate change is to blame.
University of Miami researchers have climate scientists rethinking a commonly held theory about the ocean's role in the global climate system.
In this era of environmental consciousness, many buildings are being outfitted to “go green.” An associate professor of fine arts at Rutgers-Camden, is taking the term quite literally.
Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience.
Warming streams could spell the end of spring-run Chinook salmon in California by the end of the century, according to a study by scientists at UC Davis, the Stockholm Environment Institute and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Air from laundry machines using the top-selling scented liquid detergent and dryer sheet contains hazardous chemicals, including two that are classified as carcinogens.
Climate is changing fire patterns in the west in a way that could markedly change the face of Yellowstone National Park, according to new research.
Stanford researchers say climate change will put the squeeze on many California premium wine grape growers, but a new study recommends steps to keep their vineyards from suffering.
University of Minnesota engineering researchers discover new source for generating 'green' electricity.
Large areas of the globe are likely to warm up so quickly that by the middle of this century even the coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers of the past 50 years.
It may not be possible to prevent total destruction from the most powerful tornadoes such as those which just struck the South, but better building practices and code enforcement could help with the lesser storms.
Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are unlikely to offer an economically feasible way to slow human-driven climate change for several decades.
The huge tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake destroyed coastal towns, washing such things as houses and cars into the ocean. Projections of where this debris might head have been made.
With birds chirping and temperatures warming , spring is finally in the air. But for University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) environmental chemist Torsten Meyer, springtime has a dark side.
A hurricane-like superstorm expected to hit California once every 200 years would cause devastation to the state’s businesses unheard of even in the Great Recession, a USC economist warns.
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