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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
When clouds loft tropical air masses high into the sky, some of the gases they carry can be transformed into tiny particles, initiating a process that that may end up brightening lower-level clouds and reflecting more sunlight away from Earth.
In 2019, the hole that developed in the ozone layer over Antarctica was the smallest on record since 1982, according to the NASA/NOAA press release.
Half of the Earth’s land surface not covered with ice remains relatively wild – but many of these “low human-impact” areas are broken into small, isolated pieces, threatening their future.
Human population density and land use is causing changes in animal genetic diversity, according to researchers at McGill University.
The ongoing transition from coal to natural gas and renewables in the U.S. electricity sector is dramatically reducing the industry’s water use, a new Duke University study finds.
A University of Oklahoma-led study demonstrated the potential of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument on board the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite to measure and track chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis of tropical forests in the Amazon.
