Atmospheric

Methane Emissions- Blame Sheep Guts

With the successful leveling off of CO2, a long-lasting greenhouse gas implicated for most global warming, due to a switch to natural gas, activists have been focusing on methane. While some of the claims have been controversial and used decades old Sovie ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2014 - 12:43pm

Conflicting Climate Change Patterns In The Middle Latitudes

A  research team has revealed conflicting climate change patterns between the middle latitude areas of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in relation to glacial and interglacial cycles which have been a puzzle for the past 60 years. Their study collect ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2014 - 9:30am

By Avoiding Places Where Contrails Form, Airplane Flights Could Reduce Their Climate Impact

Transportation is a big cause of CO2 emissions so w hen pop star Will.i.am takes a helicopter to a climate event to tell everyone else to be more environmentally responsible, or when environmental journalists fly across the world to attend summits because ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 7:49pm

Blizzards May Make Wind Turbines More Efficient

A new study using snow during a Minnesota blizzard gave researchers new insight into the airflow around large wind turbines. Thanks to subsidies, wind turbines are not going away until at least February of 2017, so improving wind energy efficiency is esse ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 1:04pm

Where Does All The Water Go? Now You Can Watch It

Knowing where water vapor is in the atmosphere is one of many factors forecasters use to identify weather features and so the GOES Project has created animations that indicate where water vapor is moving over the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans. Observ ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 9:47am

US Air Quality Shows Dramatic Improvement

What big environmental win has happened in the last 10 years for Americans? Most importantly, the country switched to natural gas from coal, and that is a good thing because emissions from energy plummeted, and a lot of manufacturing has left the country ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 11:54am

The Ecology Of Fear In Climate Change

Climate change is predicted to have major impacts on the many species that call our rocky shorelines home. Species living in these intertidal habitats, which spend half their day exposed to air and the other half submerged by water, could subjected to a d ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 9:54am

Don't Jump On The Banning Methane Bandwagon- And Stop Using Global Warming Potential For Comparison

As carbon dioxide (CO2) in America has declined, environmentalists and the federal government have begun to focus on the energy that got us CO2 emissions back at early 1990s levels- natural gas. What was once the preferred solution of environmentally cons ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 7:30pm

Reduce Global Warming By Understanding How Fire Works

We all know how fire works, the same way we know how gravity works. But, like gravity, there is a lot we don't know about combustion.  There are many reasons to delve into its secrets. For modern culture, combustion insight could lead to more efficie ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2014 - 10:45am

Kudzu Implicated In Global Warming

Invasion by exotic plant species affects the ability of soil to store greenhouse gases, which could have far-reaching implications for how we manage agricultural land and native ecosystems, according to a paper in New Phytologist, which found that invasiv ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2014 - 9:16pm