Studying the global climate—and how it's changing—involves examining thousands of small processes, chemical mechanisms, local weather phenomena, and more. One of the many factors scientists consider when studying the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 28, 2022
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A quartet of researchers, three with the University of Reading, the other with the University of Oxford, reports evidence that sending an electric charge into a rain-free cloud could result in the formation of raindrops. ...
Stand on the ocean's shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you'll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That's sulfur.
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2021
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A team of atmospheric scientists from around the nation is descending on the Houston, Texas, area for the next 14 months to seek answers to a vexing question: Do tiny specks of soot, dust, smoke, and other particles suspended ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2021
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When wildfires burn, they catapult smoke into the atmosphere. These plumes are loaded with tiny particles that act as magnets for water droplets sitting in clouds—the more smoky particles ejected into the sky, the more ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2021
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As wildfires and heatwaves stress the western United States, concern over drought is rising: Dry landscapes burn more readily, and rain can help quell fires already raging. But wildfire smoke may keep that essential rain ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2021
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A new method to trigger rain in places where water is scarce is being tested in the United Arab Emirates using unmanned drones that were designed and manufactured at the University of Bath. The drones carry an electric charge ...
Environment
May 6, 2021
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From space, large decks of closely spaced stratocumulus clouds appear like bright cotton balls hovering over the ocean. They cover vast areas—literally thousands of miles of the subtropical oceans—and linger for weeks ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2021
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Permafrost—frozen soil in the far north – is thawing, releasing greenhouse gases and long-lost microbes. But one thing that scientists have not studied extensively is whether permafrost contains certain kinds of particles ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2021
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ETH Zurich researchers conducted an experiment to investigate the initial steps in the formation of aerosols. Their findings are now aiding efforts to better understand and model that process—for example, the formation ...
General Physics
Jan 14, 2021
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