China is just one of many countries in the Northern Hemisphere having what researchers are calling an “extremely cold winter,” due in part to both the tropical Pacific and the Arctic, according to an analysis of temperatures from Dec. 1, 2020, to mid-January of 2021.
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Release of Nutrients From Lake-Bottom Sediments Worsens Lake Erie’s Annual ‘Dead Zone,’ Could Intensify as Climate Warms
Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much of the nutrient phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lake’s central basin each year from rivers and their tributaries.
Poor Swelter as Urban Areas of U.S. Southwest Get Hotter
Acres of asphalt parking lots, unshaded roads, dense apartment complexes and neighborhoods with few parks have taken their toll on the poor.
Pandemic Got You Down? A Little Nature Could Help
Having trouble coping with COVID?
Songbirds' Reproductive Success Reduced by Natural Gas Compressor Noise
Some songbirds are not dissuaded by constant, loud noise emitted by natural gas pipeline compressors and will establish nests nearby.
Human Impact on Solar Radiation Levels for Decades
In the late 1980s and 1990s, researchers at ETH Zurich discovered the first indications that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface had been steadily declining since the 1950s.


