Crop modeling is essential for understanding how to secure the food supply as the planet adapts to climate change.
Study: Multiscale Crop Modeling Effort Required to Assess Climate Change Adaptation
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Satellites Eye Typhoon Vongfong Landfall in the Philippines
NASA and NOAA satellites have been providing forecasters with satellite data that showed the strength and extent of Typhoon Vongfong as it made landfall in the Philippines and continued to track through the country.
The Revolt of the Plants: The Arctic Melts When Plants Stop Breathing
The vapor that plants emit when they breathe serves to lower the land surface temperature, much like watering the yard on a hot day.
Cahokia's Rise Parallels Onset of Corn Agriculture
Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 4000 B.C., but how and when the crop made it to other parts of North America is still a subject of debate.
Ozone-Depleting Chemical Alternatives Getting Into Our Food and Water
An international environmental agreement to regulate the use of chemicals depleting the ozone layer may have inadvertently allowed higher levels of other harmful chemicals to flourish, new research co-led by York University and Environment and Climate Change Canada has found.
How Particulate Matter Arises From Pollutant Gases
When winter smog takes over Asian mega-cities, more particulate matter is measured in the streets than expected.
