Climate Shifts May Bring New Apple Growing Areas
Climate has always shifted but concerns about faster changes brought on by the modern world have led the authors of a new paper to worry that current high-volume sources of apples could lose their...
Environment
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Energy
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Knee Point Prediction And Battery Capacity Degradation
Electric cars and solar and wind energy alternative schemes have a few crippling limitations; low energy densities and unavailability when people need energy most. Batteries could help with that...
Atmospheric
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Mercury Emissions Are In Decline Yet Doomsday Prophets Claim They Are Up
If you read environmental groups, we are closer to our doom than ever. Bees are nearly extinct, cell phones are causing cancer, and hydroelectric power is devastating the land.None of those are true...
Paleontology
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More Like Lizards: Claim That T. Rex Was As Smart As Monkeys Refuted
A year ago, corporate media promoted the provocative claim that dinosaurs like Tyrannorsaurus rex had so many neurons they had to be substantially more intelligent than assumed, since these high...
Geology
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An Earth Day Should Be 60 Hours Long - Here's Why It Never Happened
Everyone knows a 'day' - one rotation of Earth - is around 24 hours long and lengthening at a rate of some 1.7 milliseconds every century. Yet 2 billion years ago it was 19.5 hours and at that rate...
Oceanography
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The Role Of Earth’s Orbit In Climate Change
There has long been debate about the role of Earth’s orbit in driving global climate cycles. As most people know, 90,000 of every 100,000 years have been ice ages in patterns.Scientists have long...
Borneo Ice Cores In Underground Caves Give Clues To Climate Change
Growing inside the caves of the tropical Pacific island of Borneo are some of the keys to understanding how the Earth's climate suddenly changed - several times - over the last 25,000 years. By…
Global Warming Impacts North America's Innermost Arctic Lake, Says Study
Analyses conducted by researchers from Université Laval’s Center for Northern Studies reveal that aquatic life in Ward Hunt Lake, the continent’s northernmost lake, is affected by climate change.…
NASA: Greenland Melting Increased Even At High Altitudes
A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever - 150 percent more than average.
Marco Tedesco, a research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth…
What An Ancient British Bog Can Tell Us About Global Warming
Researchers at the University of Bristol say their analysis of sediments from a British bog suggest that methane emissions increased around 55 million years ago due to intense global warming - not…
Peat Protects Permafrost
Peat and vegetation in northern areas may help protect permafrost from the effects of climate change, according to a recent study by McMaster researchers published in Geophysical Research Letters.…
Envisat Satellite Shows Lowest Arctic Ice Coverage In Its 30-Year History
The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage – a long-sought short cut…
Dispelling The Myth Of Bipolar Glaciation 41 Million Years Ago
Large continental ice sheets did not exist in both hemispheres around 41 million years ago during the warmer-than modern conditions of the time.
This is the finding of scientists from the University…
Calculating The Biomass Of Martian Soil
A new interpretation of data from NASA’s Viking landers indicates that 0.1% of the Martian soil tested could have a biological origin.
Dr Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany,…
Sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution
Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California,…
What makes The Sandman so tough
When the movie Spider-Man 3 swung into theaters a few weeks ago, it found University physics professor James Kakalios waiting. A diehard fan of superhero comics, he takes a double interest in Spidey…
