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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 triggered widespread algal blooms in the Southern Ocean thousands of miles downwind to the east, a new Duke University-led study by an international team of scientists finds.
By mid-century, once dominant winter sports may slowly be replaced by activities less dependent on perfect winter conditions according to recently released research about changing patterns of recreation on public lands.
Sometimes, doing things close to home may be more feasible than doing them on a grand scale, even if they cost a bit more.
University of Tsukuba researchers apply pressure and atmospheric circulation modeling to identify that warm sea surface temperature conditions in the Indian Ocean were a major factor in the anomalously warm winter and extreme summer rainfall in East Asia in 2019-20
So many climate models, so little time … A new way of measuring ocean temperatures helps scientists sort the likely from unlikely scenarios of global warming.
Anthropologists David Holmberg and Kathryn March will receive the 2021 Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal for their many decades of friendship and assistance to Nepal, and for their leadership in educational exchange programs between Tribhuvan University and Cornell University.
