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New Study Could Help Predict Frequency and Intensity of Hurricanes due to a Warmer Climate

Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire into the height of the Middle Ages, according to a new study. The findings could have implications for the intensity and frequency of hurricanes that the U.S. East and Gulf coasts could experience as ocean temperatures increase as a result of climate change, according to the study’s authors.

12 Feb 2015

Geoengineering May Help Counteract Political Polarization over Global Warming

Geoengineering, an emerging technology aimed at counteracting the effects of human-caused climate change, also has the potential to counteract political polarization over global warming, according to a new study.

11 Feb 2015

Antarctica Sea Ice Increases Do Not Make Up for Accelerated Arctic Sea Ice Loss

Sea ice increases in Antarctica do not make up for the accelerated Arctic sea ice loss of the last decades, a new NASA study finds. As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers) since 1979, the equivalent of losing an area of sea ice larger than the state of Maryland every year.

11 Feb 2015

Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Fail in Brazil's Steel Industry

New research shows that climate change mitigation efforts in Brazil's steel industry have failed. Instead of reducing greenhouse gas pollution, scientists discovered that programs under an international climate treaty led to an overall doubling of carbon dioxide emissions in the industry.

11 Feb 2015

Man-Made Industrial Emissions Contribute to Reduced Rainfall in the Northern Tropics

Scientists have produced a rainfall record strongly suggesting that man-made industrial emissions have contributed to less rainfall in the northern tropics.

11 Feb 2015

Analyzing Lead Content in Gasoline Using EDXRF - New Method Published By Rigaku

Applied Rigaku Technologies, Inc. announces the publication of a new application report covering the measurement of lead (Pb) in gasoline according to ASTM D5059-14, "Standard Test Methods for Lead in Gasoline by X-Ray Spectroscopy" using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometry.

10 Feb 2015

New Research to Measure Impact of Climate Change on Thunderstorms

The Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of global catastrophe, last week ticked a minute closer to "midnight"--- the apocalypse. The symbolic clock was set to 11:57 by a board of atomic scientists featuring 17 Nobel Laureates, who warned that the planet, beset by climate change and nuclear proliferation, faced extraordinary and undeniable threats to its continued existence.

10 Feb 2015

New Study Reveals Vulnerability of Tropical High Mountain Lakes to Global Climate Change

A study of three remote lakes in Ecuador led by Queen's University researchers has revealed the vulnerability of tropical high mountain lakes to global climate change - the first study of its kind to show this. The data explains how the lakes are changing due to the water warming as the result of climate change.

10 Feb 2015

Atmospheric CO2 Levels During the Pliocene Support Recent IPCC Climate Change Predications

New evidence showing the level of atmospheric CO2 millions of years ago supports recent climate change predications from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

9 Feb 2015

Volcanic Activity Intensity May Help Understand Variations in Earth's Climate

The intensity of volcanic activity at deeply submerged mid-ocean ridges waxes and wanes on a roughly 100,000-year cycle, according to a new study that might help explain poorly understood variations in Earth's climate that occur on approximately the same timetable.

9 Feb 2015