As the lives of millions of people worldwide were disrupted by social distancing measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, an unexpected piece of good news surfaced: levels of air pollution in major cities had ...
Materials Science
Apr 23, 2020
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We're so used to putting on the AC when it gets hot that we don't even stop to think about what we're doing. But the impact it's having on the globe may surprise you.
Earth Sciences
Apr 21, 2020
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Polynyas—areas of open water with reduced ice cover that persists—in the Antarctic play an important role in regional atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions and are considered to help generate the global deep ocean conveyer ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2020
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During heat waves, people tend to crank up their home's air conditioning not only because it got hotter outside, but also because it feels too humid.
Environment
Apr 15, 2020
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A new study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, has found that clean cooking with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) could avert 28,000 premature deaths and reduce global temperatures through successful implementation ...
Environment
Apr 2, 2020
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A combined team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden and Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary has found evidence that dogs are able to "smell" radiated heat. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, ...
Scientists at Caltech and JPL have tied a shift in winter weather patterns in Europe and northern Eurasia to a reduction in air pollution.
Environment
Feb 3, 2020
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In 2017, when the drought in Cape Town was at its worst in over a century, aid organisation Gift of the Givers made an urgent call to South Africans to help farmers; suicide rates, amongst both small- and large-scale farmers, ...
Environment
Jan 17, 2020
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Satellite data of Tropical Cyclone Claudia's cloud top temperatures revealed that the storm was weakening.
Environment
Jan 15, 2020
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Natural gas has become the largest fuel source for generating electricity in the United States, accounting for a third of production and consumption of energy. However, the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of natural ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2019
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