Modeling strategy allows scientists to explore ways to limit warming, reduce side effects Using a sophisticated computer model, scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a new res... Read more
September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000. Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified the “first fingerprints of healing” of the Antarctic ozone layer, p... Read more
A reduction in the amount of oxygen dissolved in the oceans due to climate change is already discernible in some parts of the world and should be evident across large regions of the oceans b... Read more
When enough raindrops fall over land instead of the ocean, they begin to add up. New research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that when three atmospheric pat... Read more
New computer model takes a page from weather forecasting to predict regional peaks in influenza outbreaks Scientists have developed a system to predict the timing and severity of seasonal in... Read more
Where can Florida panthers and loblolly pine, a major source of timber, survive as the climate shifts? An advance guard of 18-wheelers is scheduled to roll into a business park in Che... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture–and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences The people of East Afri... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Here’s an idea to cool Earth: make marine clouds into better reflectors of sunlight. After all, clouds already reflect more of the sun’s radiation back into s... Read more