Airlines are finally admitting contrails are an environmental problem
Contrails—those lines of wispy white clouds that follow some jets—may not be so harmless.
Earth Sciences
Dec 9, 2022
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News tagged with high altitudes
Regional climate, kilometer-scale dynamical downscaling over the Tibetan Plateau
Known as the "Roof of the World," the Tibetan Plateau is tough to study for meteorological scientists, given its high altitude, steep terrain and harsh natural environments. Limitations and uncertainties of general observation ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2022
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Study analyzes dust transport in the upper levels of the atmosphere over the last two glacial cycles
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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Climate change strikes: Lightning patterns change with global warming
New research has shown climate change could alter lightning patterns across Europe.
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2022
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Scientists bring back Earth's 'memory' with mountaintop ice
Humans are fascinated by our planet's distant past. Since human recorded history only goes back a few thousand years, we probe Earth's "memory" in various ways to uncover its secrets. One of these methods is to hunt for traces ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2022
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Ozone hole grows this year, but still shrinking in general
The Antarctic ozone hole last week peaked at a moderately large size for the third straight year—bigger than the size of North America—but experts say it's still generally shrinking despite recent blips because of high ...
Environment
Oct 13, 2022
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Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere—barium. They were surprised to discover barium at high altitudes ...
Astronomy
Oct 13, 2022
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Sharpest Earth-based images of Europa and Ganymede reveal their icy landscapes
The cocktail of chemicals that make up the frozen surfaces on two of Jupiter's largest moons are revealed in the most detailed images ever taken of them by a telescope on Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Oct 10, 2022
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Forest fires in late snowpack areas have a negative impact on water flow
A team of researchers at Colorado State University has found that forest fires over the past several decades are having a detrimental impact on late snowpack areas in mountainous regions. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
An overview of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon
NASA's Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Monday, is a 42-day voyage beyond the far side of the Moon and back.
Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2022
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