Lightning bolts break apart nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere and create reactive chemicals that affect greenhouse gases.
Lightning and Subvisible Discharges Produce Molecules that Clean the Atmosphere
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In Colombia, Indigenous Lands Are Ground Zero for a Wind Energy Boom
It all started about four years ago, when SUVs and pickup trucks drove uninvited onto their lands, remembers Olimpia Palmar, a member of the Indigenous Wayúu peoples, who have historically occupied the La Guajira desert in northern Colombia and Venezuela.
Temperature Explains Why Aquatic Life More Diverse Near Equator
The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else — a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the mid-latitudes and the mid-latitudes to the poles.
Antarctica Remains the Wild Card for Sea-Level Rise Estimates Through 2100
A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date.
Physicists Describe New Type of Aurora
For millennia, humans in the high latitudes have been enthralled by auroras—the northern and southern lights.
Flooding Might Triple in the Mountains of Asia
A team of Swiss and international climate scientists has shown that the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayan region and the Tibetan plateau could triple in the coming decades.
