Infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite shows that Tropical Storm Barry doesn’t look like a typical strong tropical cyclone.
NASA Finds an Asymmetric Tropical Storm Barry
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Impact of Wildfire on Pollination by Moths Revealed
Researchers have shown for the first time the detrimental effect of wildfires on moths and the ecological benefits they provide by transporting pollen, making interacting plant and insect communities more vulnerable to local extinctions.
Super Salty, Subzero Arctic Water Provides Peek at Possible Life on Other Planets
In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched.
PSU Researchers Push for Better Policies Around Toxic Chemicals
From high levels of lead found in school drinking water to industry sites releasing toxic heavy metals into the air, over 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health from toxic chemicals.
Moon-Forming Disk Discovered Around Distant Planet Jade Boyd
Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one that is believed to have birthed the moons of Jupiter.
Early Arrival of Spring Disrupts the Mutualism Between Plants and Pollinators
Gaku Kudo of Hokkaido University and Elisabeth J. Cooper of the Arctic University of Norway have demonstrated that early snowmelt results in the spring ephemeral Corydalis ambigua flowering ahead of the emergence of its pollinator, the bumblebee.
