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Permafrost Melt Leading to Increased Streamflow in the Arctic

Rising temperatures and changes in precipitation are driving increases to streamflow in areas of high-latitude North America where permafrost dominates the landscape.

11 Jul 2023

Researchers Review Scientific Literature on Urbanization's Impact on Weather and Climate

Researchers know that urbanization has noticeable effects on processes at and near the Earth's surface. This affects the weather and climate in ways that have consequences for rapidly growing urban populations.

11 Jul 2023

Researchers Calculate How Air Traffic Could Become Climate-Neutral by 2050

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have performed calculations to work out how air traffic could become climate-neutral by 2050.

10 Jul 2023

Quantifying Ground Ice Meltwater Contribution to River Runoff

In a warming climate, the sustainable development of cryospheric meltwater on the Tibetan Plateau has sparked worries because of its significance for the fragile ecosystem in the headwater regions and the dense populations downstream.

10 Jul 2023

Arctic Dust with High Ice Nucleating Ability Impacts Arctic Clouds

Investigators from Nagoya University and Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research discovered that dust from land without snow cover in the Arctic is a significant source of particles that form ice crystals in the Arctic’s low-level clouds (at altitudes below about 3 km) during summer and fall.

10 Jul 2023

Persistent Marine Heat Waves Linked to Seabird Die-Offs

Seabirds, from cormorants to puffins, spend most of their lives at sea. Beloved by birdwatchers, these animals can be hard to study because they spend so much time far from shore.

7 Jul 2023

Electrochemical Plastic Dissolution: Shaping the Future of Recycling

In order to tackle the growing plastic problem, Chemists at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) have devised an innovative, new method for recycling PET plastic.

7 Jul 2023

Affordable Technology Reduces Nitrous Oxide Emissions

A team of scientists has recently identified a method that is able to successfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions and is available, affordable, and capable of being implemented right now.

6 Jul 2023

Study Finds Irrigation Can Have Complex Effects on Precipitation in Mid-Atlantic

Scientists know that urbanization and irrigation can significantly influence rainfall. However, they don't fully know how these effects vary among different types of rain. Researchers investigated how large-scale urbanization and irrigation in the United States affect the three dominant types of summer precipitation in the mid-Atlantic region.

4 Jul 2023

Aerosol-Driven Changes in Ocean Circulation More Effective than GHGs in Altering Oceanic Heat Distribution

Anthropogenic aerosols - aerosols originating from human activity - and greenhouse gases, or GHGs, have helped modulate the storage and distribution of heat in oceans since the industrial age. Isolating and quantifying the effects of both forcers using coupled climate model simulations, a University of California, Riverside-led team has found that anthropogenic aerosols and GHGs have played distinct roles in the world's oceans in shaping the pattern of heat uptake, redistribution, and storage.

4 Jul 2023