ENN
Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Reducing fossil fuel emissions steadily over coming years will prevent millions of premature deaths and help avoid the worst of climate change without causing the large spike in short-term warming that some studies have predicted, new analysis by researchers at Duke University and the University of Leeds finds.
One of the ways NASA researches tropical cyclones is using infrared data that provides temperature information.
A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has completed the first study of the effects of a simultaneous infection with blood flukes (schistosomes) and the bacterium Helicobacter pylori – a fairly common occurrence in some parts of the world.
Hurricane Kiko weakened to a tropical storm, but imagery from NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite showed that the storm has maintained strength in the circular area of powerful storms around the low-level center.
Texas has a long history of growing cotton. It’s a resilient crop, able to withstand big swings in temperature fairly well.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are building up in the environment, and scientists are becoming concerned.
