In the right conditions, airplane contrails can linger in the sky as contrail cirrus – ice clouds that can trap heat inside the Earth’s atmosphere.
Climate Impact of Clouds Made from Airplane Contrails May Triple by 2050
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The Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke May Last a Lifetime
When smoke from California’s deadliest wildfire blew into downtown Sacramento last November, daylight blurred into dusk and the city’s air became among the world’s most polluted.
3D Body Mapping Could Identify, Treat Organs, Cells Damaged from Medical Conditions
Medical advancements can come at a physical cost.
In Greenland’s Melting Ice, A Warning on Hard Climate Choices
The heat wave arrived early this spring — a shroud of temperate air, sweeping in during early June, which enveloped the Northern Hemisphere’s biggest ice sheet in a stifling hug.
Corals Can Survive in Acidified Ocean Conditions, but Have Lower Density Skeletons
Coral reefs face many challenges to their survival, including the global acidification of seawater as a result of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Mimicking Wood’s Ultrastructure with 3D Printing
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in 3D printing with a wood-based ink in a way that mimics the unique ‘ultrastructure’ of wood.
