Energy-rich Qatar faces fast-rising climate risks at home
At a suburban park near Doha, the capital city of Qatar, cool air from vents in the ground blasted joggers on a November day that reached almost 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit).
At a suburban park near Doha, the capital city of Qatar, cool air from vents in the ground blasted joggers on a November day that reached almost 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit).
Environment
Nov 27, 2022
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A new study has linked subtle changes in the wettest weather to the occurrence of drought across Australia.
Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2022
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When winds lift dust off the ground, attached bacteria go along for the ride. These airborne bacteria make up aerobiomes, which, when the dust settles again, can alter environmental chemistry and affect human and animal health, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2022
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The moon is incredibly hot, and also incredibly cold.
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2022
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Dust from the dry Puna Plateau in northwestern Argentina was an important source of iron for the nutrient-deficient South Pacific in the last two glacial cycles—especially at the beginning of these cycles. This was the ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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An international team of scientists has achieved the milestone of directly observing the long-sought, innermost dusty ring around a supermassive black hole, at a right angle to its emerging jet. Such a structure was thought ...
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2022
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ESA's Mars Express has revealed that Mars churns up surprisingly Earth-like cloud patterns that are reminiscent of those in our planet's tropical regions.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 16, 2022
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Researchers from The Ohio State University are using dust trapped in glacier ice in Tibet to document past changes in Earth's intricate climate system—and maybe one day help predict future changes.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2022
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A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young solar system started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2022
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For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA's MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously, the result of solar storms that began on Aug. 27.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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