Missing Chemical Important to Air Pollution Estimates
April 30 — Something is missing in the analysis of emissions of volatile organic compounds from a Michigan forest, and, according to a team of atmospheric scientists, what they do not know can have a large impact on air pollution in areas near forests. (Penn State University press release) More

Science in the Clouds
April 29 — University of Utah meteorologists are using a NASA research jet to examine icy, wispy cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere � a study aimed at determining how much the clouds warm Earth's climate and how much they cool it. (University of Utah press release) More

Research Helps Implement Global Climate Change Initiative
April 29 — The Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research at Virginia Tech is leading an interdisciplinary coalition to identify potential carbon sequestration sinks within Virginia as part of the Department of Energy�s Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership project. (Virginia Tech University press release) More

Kansas State Soil Carbon Sequestration Research Playing Role in Climate Change Efforts
April 27 — Kansas State University research is playing a role in bilateral activities between the United States and Canada on climate change. (Kansas State University press release) More

Ocean Dye to Help Rutgers Scientists Trace Hudson River�s Path Miles into the Atlantic
April 27 — Shipboard marine scientists from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will release a nontoxic red dye into the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey during the week of May 2 to help reveal the contents and fate of Hudson River water after it joins the Atlantic. (Rutgers University press release) More

NCAR Aircraft, Ground Instruments to Track Carbon Dioxide Uptake
April 27 — The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will fly a C-130 research aircraft over Colorado's Front Range this May and July to measure how much carbon dioxide mountain forests remove from the air as spring turns into summer. (National Center for Atmospheric Research press release) More

ORNL Researchers Focus on the Carbon Dioxide Big Picture
April 22 — Spring's lush green lawns and hot pink shoes contribute at least in a small way to the world's total carbon picture, say researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory press release) More

Rate of Ocean Circulation Directly Linked to Abrupt Climate Change
April 22 — A new study strengthens evidence that oceans and climate are linked in an intricate dance, and that rapid climate change may be related to how vigorously ocean currents transport heat from low to high latitudes. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution press release) More

New Evidence Supports Three Major Glaciation Events in Distant Past
April 21 — Glaciers reached Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the most recent ice age about 20,000 years ago, but researchers say much harsher ice ages hit the Earth in an ancient geological interval known as "the Cryogenian Period" between 750 and 600 million years ago. (Virginia Tech University press release) More

Moss Landing Researchers Reveal Iron as Key to Climate Change
April 15 — A major oceanographic expedition to Antarctica's Southern Ocean suggests that iron supply to this area influenced Earth's climate during ice ages. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute press release) More

No-till Farming Offers a Quick Fix to Help Ward Off Host of Global Problems
April 15 — Increase no-till farming practices across the planet or face serious climate, soil quality and food production problems in the next 20 to 50 years, say scientists. (Ohio State University press release) More

Researchers Receive Funds to Create High-tech Wildfire Fighting Solutions
April 15 — In the not so distant future, analysts using supercomputers may be able to send real-time maps and predictions of a wildfire's next moves to wildfire management teams hundreds of miles away. (National Science Foundation press release) More

Phytoplankton May Stimulate Uptake ofCarbon Dioxide
April 15 — New research has revealed that phytoplankton may be one of the main historic controls on global warming, and that fertilizing the oceans with iron results in increased phytoplankton productivity, a hypothetical way to offset the effects of global warming. (Oregon State University press release) More

Like Ozone Hole, Polar Clouds Take Bite Out of Meteoric Iron
April 15 — Scientists have discovered that polar clouds play a significant role in removing meteoric iron from Earth's mesosphere, helping researchers refine their models of atmospheric chemistry and global warming. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release) More

By Looking Back, Scientists See a Bright Future for Climate Change
April 14 — A new study finds that an improved climate model, known as LDEO5, for the first time predicted every major change in the temperature of the tropical Pacific Ocean over the past 150 years with up to two years of advance notice. (The Earth Institute at Columbia University press release) More

Proof of Global Warming Could Be Written on Water
April 14 — A new ESA-funded office in the United Kingdom is coordinating international efforts to map global sea surface temperature in unprecedented detail. (European Space Agency press release) More

Nighttime Chemistry Affects Ozone Formation
April 12 — Scientists have found that nighttime chemical processes remove nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the atmosphere in the marine boundary layer off the coast of New England, a new piece of the air quality puzzle, researchers say. (American Geophysical Union press release) More

Livermore Scientists Contribute to New Measurements of Stratospheric Ozone
April 8 — A team of scientists, including two from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have identified a new method to measure the amount of stratospheric ozone that is present at any given time in the upper troposphere. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory press release) More

Global Warming and the Onward March of the Pine
April 8 — Climate change could dramatically increase forest cover of the Earth’s mountains, according to a new study. (Blackwell Publishing press release) More

ASIRAS, a New ESA Airborne Instrument Sees Ice for the First Time
April 8 — A new instrument, which is set to be the workhorse for validating CryoSat data, has been successfully tested from an aircraft over the snow and ice not far from the North Pole. (European Space Agency press release) More

Florida Tech Scientist Sees Lightning Like Superman
April 8 — Florida Tech physicist Joseph Dwyer and other scientists are studying lightning using X-Ray detectors, learning that lightning is much more complex than once thought. (Florida Institute of Technology press release) More

Loggerhead Sea Turtles Nesting Earlier Due to Warmer Ocean Temperatures
April 6 — Loggerhead sea turtles along Florida's Atlantic coast are laying their eggs about 10 days earlier than they did 15 years ago, a change that a University of Central Florida researcher believes was caused by global warming. (University of Central Florida press release) More

Amazon Drought Now Measured from Space
April 5 — Using a unique combination of ground-based and space-based tools, scientists have determined for the first time how drought conditions, and possibly carbon uptake, in the Amazon rainforest can be quantified over large forest areas from space. (Carnegie Institution press release) More

Water Molecules Clump More Closely than Previously Thought
April 4 — A team led by scientists at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and Stockholm University has achieved a breakthrough in understanding the structure of liquid water, finding water molecules clump much more loosely than previously thought. (Stanford University press release) More

For the Sake of Land and Climate, Coaxing Soil to Soak Up Carbon
April 1 — In a novel approach to stalling global warming while reinvigorating nutrient-depleted farmland, chemists have found they can promote soil's natural ability to soak up carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory press release) More

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