Ice plays a significant role in many aspects of life, ranging from food preservation to ice sports and ecosystems, thereby providing incentive to protect ice from melting under sunlight. Fundamentally, ice melts under sunlight ...
NASA has selected two science missions—the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm—to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the sun, the sun-Earth connection, and the constantly changing space environment. ...
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2022
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A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has found concrete evidence that more than 85 percent of the grouper and snapper studied are overfished as ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2022
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In 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled after making landfall over coastal Texas, pouring down record rainfall, flooding communities and becoming one of the wettest and most destructive storms in United States history. A new technique ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 1, 2022
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While climate change is making much of the world warmer, temperatures in a subpolar region of the North Atlantic are getting cooler. A team of researchers report that changes in the wind pattern, among other factors, may ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 1, 2022
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It is important to bridge the two fields, atmospheric sciences and solar engineering, for the common good of carbon neutrality.
Environment
Jan 27, 2022
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A new study found that seafloor sediments have the potential to transmit a deadly pathogen to local corals and hypothesizes that sediments have played a role in the persistence of a devastating coral disease outbreak throughout ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2022
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Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them, new research has shown.
Ecology
Jan 20, 2022
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A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science revealed that the locations and timing of tiger shark movement in the western North Atlantic Ocean have changed ...
Ecology
Jan 13, 2022
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The previously elusive methanediol molecule of importance to the organic, atmospheric science and astrochemistry communities has been synthetically produced for the first time by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers. ...
Materials Science
Dec 31, 2021
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