In just 10 years, fires, drought, and insect infestations have devastated close to a third of forests in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains, a new study finds.
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Climate Change to Produce More Rainbows
Climate change will increase opportunities to see rainbows, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa.
Vegetation Regulates Energy Exchange in the Arctic
Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation.
New Catalyst Can Turn Smelly Hydrogen Sulfide into a Cash Cow
Hydrogen sulfide gas has the unmistakable aroma of rotten eggs.
Atmospheric Aerosol Concentrations are Decreasing, But Ground Measurements and Climate Models Still Differ
The declining trend was also observed by the climate models studied, but on average the relative decrease was lower in the models than in the ground measurements.
Ultra-Cold Mini Twisters
A team of quantum physicists from Innsbruck, Austria, led by three-time ERC laureate Francesca Ferlaino has established a new method to observe vortices in dipolar quantum gases.