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Mar 3 | News
Phytoplankton are single-celled organisms that serve as the base of the marine food web and provide half the oxygen we breathe on Earth. They also play a key role in global climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and injecting it deep into the oceans.
Feb 17 | News
Several Midwestern states could be facing increased winter and spring flooding, as well as difficult growing conditions on farms, if average temperatures rise, according to a Purdue Univ. researcher.
Feb 16 | Featured Articles
Whatever the industry, researchers and scientist are likely to be using analytical instruments such as sensors, meters, analyzers, spectrometers, and more in their daily work. The questions then, are how efficient, how cost-effective, and how easy to use are the analytical tools currently on the market.
Feb 12 | News
A study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and multiple universities has concluded that southbound infragravity waves, created and driven by storms in the Pacific Ocean, may have been a key mechanical agent in the 2008 breakup of the Wilkins Ice Shelf.
Feb 12 | News
UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic "gene" that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels, and the increased acidity of oceans.
Feb 4 | News
By analyzing sediments up to 4,000 years old, Susan Zimmerman, a scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, is hoping to provide a tool to help predict future climate change.
Feb 4 | News
The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously examine and quantify the causes. A scientist from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory set out to isolate the impacts of the most commonly blamed culprit—greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide—from other particles in the air that may be causing the melting.
Feb 2 | News
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, a new study indicates. The new NCAR-led research suggests there may be merit to an idea advanced by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu that white roofs can be an important tool to help society adjust to climate change.
Feb 1 | News
As climate change challenges continue to crop up around fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide, identifying renewable fuel materials and developing processes that produce environmentally friendly, cost-competitive biofuels are becoming increasingly important. MSU scientists are producing biofuels from cellulose and hemicellulose, the complex sugars that make grasses, plant stems and stalks, and leaves rigid.
Jan 27 | News
For more than 60 years, the 231 mph gust atop New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington remained the world’s highest ever recorded on Earth’s surface. But in 1996, reports a panel of experts, Cyclone Olivia generated a 253 mph gust on Australia’s remote Barrow Island. The record apparently went unnoticed for years by the Australians.